Cars torched twice in driveway as cops hunt Scots firebugs
Officers are treating both fires as deliberate and are linking the incidents.
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The cars were set on fire in a driveway outside a property in Houston Street, Hamilton (Image: Google)
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Firebugs torch cars in two linked attacks as cops hunt for masked vandals FIREBUGS torched cars - one twice in a row - in two attacks police believe are linked. Shortly after midnight on Thursday, February 18, louts set two motors alight in a driveway in Houston Street, Hamilton. On Sunday night, the same car was targeted and was badly damaged by the blaze. Two men were seen heading away from the scene in a white Ford Fiesta, which they drove towards Scott Street, onto Burnblea Street, Glebe Street and then Bent Road. A pair spotted close to both blazes were described as being in their twenties or thirties, wearing dark clothes, gloves and masks. One was of a medium build, six feet tall, and the other five feet and eight inches tall and of a slim build.
Jordan Grayson pleaded guilty to causing criminal damage (Image: Stoke Sentinel)
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Suspected shoplifter Jordan Grayson damaged a staff member’s glasses during a scuffle outside a shop.
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