Mark Martindale banned from going to Great Yarmouth after starting fire at Market Gates shopping centre
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A man with more than 30 arson attacks on record will only be able to carry one lighter and has been banned from Great Yarmouth after starting a fire at a shopping centre.
Mark Martindale, 36, of Swaffham Road, Wendling, who has a long history of starting fires, mainly to wheelie bins in the Great Yarmouth area, admitted arson on August 26, last year, when he set fire to rubbish behind a store at the shopping centre.
Sentencing him at Norwich Crown Court, Judge Andrew Shaw told Martindale, who had 32 offences of arson, that he was putting a range of measures in place to protect the public and try to stop him re-offending.