Arson attack on cars

TWO cars were set on fire on Kenworthy Road on Friday March 1 and police are hunting an arsonist.

It was at around 12.30am when Lauren Bradwell, 33, noticed that the two cars on her drive were ablaze.

A person, caught on CCTV, had poured petrol over the cars and set them alight just inches from the house.

As soon as Lauren noticed the flames, she tackled the blaze herself, along with her partner and two friends. Her 10-year-old son was sleeping in the bedroom directly above the cars.

She told Look Local: “The fire brigade say that they don’t encourage people to fight fires themselves but if we hadn’t, the fire would have spread to the house.

“My son was upstairs in bed and we were still awake with our friends downstairs. I saw an orange flash through the window and when I looked, the cars were well alight so we went out and poured water on them.

“We’re on the priority list now, we have to move house because my son is terrified. He won’t go upstairs now.”

The cars, a Nissan X Trail and a Mitsubishi Evo, are both badly damaged. If anyone has any information, they can call 101, quoting crime reference numbers 14/39534 and 14/39541 of March 1 2019.