All news on the topic: Arson

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Cara Delevigne breaks silence on house fire with heartbreaking pet cat update
British model Cara Delevingne's sprawling £5.5million ($7million) mansion in Los Angeles burnt down to the ground in a horror house blaze on Friday
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Men accused of blowing up woman's house 'planned to feed daughter to python'
Caleb Kinsey and Stephen Glosser have been accused of blowing up a woman’s house with 80lbs-worth of explosives after a fling broke down – along with a list of twisted plans
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Cops 'kick down locked door' at station as man arrested for arson after fire
Passengers at West Hampstead Station faced chaos this afternoon due to a 'serious incident'. Police said a fire was contained and a man was arrested on suspicion of arson
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Inside far-left 'eco-terrorist' group claiming Tesla factory arson attack
Volcano Group, who've been wreaking havoc in Germany since 2011, have been branded the 'dumbest eco-terrorists' by a disgruntled Elon Musk after the alleged attack on his Tesla factory
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Son 'driven to financial ruin' battling tycoon dad over £2.5million mansion
BC Softwear millionaire Michael Parker Is refusing to throw in the towel in a High Court battle with son Thomas Parker-Bowyer over a £2.5m seven-bedroom Bedfordshire mansion
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Man threw 'Molotov cocktail' through sex offender's window and set fire to flat
Simon Boothby, who strongly objected to the sex offender living anywhere near him and so set fire to the man's flat in the Bransholme area of Hull, has been jailed
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Moment police kick down door of burning building to rescue terrified residents
The Metropolitan Police has released bodycam footage of officers kicking down a door to rescue people from a burning building before a 25-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of arson
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Death row inmate freed after 30 years as new evidence proves wrongful conviction
A Philadelphia inmate was exonerated after serving 30 years on death row for a crime he insists he did not commit — new evidence was presented that all but proved his innocence
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Schoolboy, 10, suffered 40% burns when wheelie-bin fire spread to 1st floor flat
Blaine Beattie, 10, suffered serious burns after a suspected arson attack left his home on a first-floor flat in a blaze - and two months later, he visited the firefighters who saved his life
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Brave schoolboy reunited with firefighters who saved his life
Blaine Beattie, 10, had an emotional return with the firefighters who rescued him. He was almost killed in a suspected arson attack and suffered 40 per cent burns
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Arsonist waved to CCTV before pouring fuel into letterbox and lighting fire
Kevin Hughes, 40, arrived at the property in Garratt Avenue in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, carrying a jerry can full of fuel at around 4am and cheerfully waved at a CCTV camera
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Family who 'lived in fear' for three years lose everything in 'arson attack'
Inas Himedan, 33, from Huddersfield, along with her husband Yousef Khaled and their two young children, have been left with "nothing but their pyjamas", following the blaze that saw them jump from their second floor flat
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Suicide pact murderer wiped out partner and three children in house fire
Daniel Sebastian Allen admitted murdering a teenage girl, her baby daughter and brother and killing their mum, found handcuffed to a bed after a house fire in Derrylin, Co Fermanagh
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Morgue left untouched inside abandoned psychiatric hospital which treated kids
The abandoned psychiatric hospital, now falling apart and covered in debris, first opened in 1898 and was known for its treatment of young children using electroconvulsive therapy
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Young dentist 'stabbed in face' by former patient set to lose one of her eyes
On February 7, one of Dr Katherine ‘Katie’ Tran's colleagues heard a loud noise and turned to see Sharon Stewart standing over the dentist with a three-inch blade knife, according to police
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Inside Rick Stein’s Cornwall controversy - restaurant blaze to furious locals
Rick Stein's Asian culinary exploration, Rick Stein's India, airs on BBC2 today, but not all of his shows have been well received
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Arsonist threw two molotov cocktails at church planning to host drag show events
A convicted arsonist was sentenced to 18 years in prison and three on parole this week after a March 2023 incident in which he threw two Molotov cocktails at a church planning to host drag show events
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Boy, 9, killed by mum despite more than 60 calls to police for help
More than 60 calls were made to professionals by people who were concerned about Alfie's welfare in the years leading up to his death, it has been revealed.
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Two teens set fire to two listed buildings and causing £15m worth of damage
The boys, aged 17 and 16, were told they could have faced long prison sentences had they been adults after causing £15million-worth of damage to the Newcastle University-owned Henderson Hall in June last year
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Man sentenced to death for arson attack at cartoon studio that killed 36 people
Shinji Aoba stormed into Kyoto's No 1 studio in July 2019, setting off a monstrous blaze which claimed the lives of 36 people - many of them dying from carbon monoxide poisoning - and leaving more than 30 people badly burned or injured
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Cops make arson arrest after man suffers serious injuries in house explosion
A man has been arrested on suspicion of arson after a 'loud' house explosion in Leicester left another man seriously injured and caused nearby flats to be evacuated
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School at centre of Palestine badge row could be forced to close after 'threats'
Barclay Primary School in Leyton, east London, told parents it might have to "revert to online learning" if the safety of children and staff cannot be guaranteed in the wake of Palestinian solidarity
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Owner of Britain's 'wonkiest' pub The Crooked House steps down as company boss
Carly Taylor's old firm ATE Farms Limited bought the iconic Crooked House pub near Dudley, West Midlands, two weeks before a fire engulfed the property in August last year
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Mystery fire severely damages Putin family home amid sabotage suspicions
In a shocking video, flames are seen rising from the home of Roman Putin, 45, who is sanctioned by the West for links to his cousin, the Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin
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Woman dashed to hospital with serious burns after house fire as man is arrested
Staffordshire Police says its officers are treating a fire, which happened today in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, as deliberate and have arrested a man on suspicion of arson