A victim who lost his new van to the mindless actions of a serial arsonist has praised our officers for swiftly bringing the culprit to justice.
Andrew Watson, 61, was awoken by the sound of his vehicle’s alarm, emerging bleary-eyed from his home in Red Barn Road, Brightlingsea, at 2am on Wednesday 16 August last year.
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