All news on the topic: Arson

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mike Freer, whose North London constituency office was damaged in a suspected Christmas Eve arson attack, spoke about the dangers MPs face

Blaine Beattie's live "will never be the same again" following the horrendous fire at his family home in Peterlee, County Durham, suspected to have been started deliberately

A suspected serial killer allegedly led his victims into the woods after asking them for help digging up buried treasure, then slaughtered and buried them in a park near Seattle

The update has been initiated because of the rising number of 'Geofence' search warrants demanded by law officers to identify witnesses and suspects involved in crimes

Peter Owen has been jailed for setting fire to his sofa, with the judge ruling he was putting the lives of other residents who lived around him at risk. He will spend three years behind bars

Social media star Chico shared the news that he had bought the properties in Dortmund, Germany only last week as police believe the fires were deliberately started

A house on a gated road in Liverpool was firebombed by three suspects in the early hours of Friday morning with Merseyside Police labelling the act 'totally reckless'

The grandmother of six kids slain in a house fire believes Paul Mosley, who helped set the blaze, should not be released into the public again, saying prison is 'where he belongs'

An area of Walsall in the West Midlands has been dubbed Britain's roughest estate after residents liken it to 'war-torn Ukraine' and say knife-wielding youths have been causing misery for three years

Residents of Thurnscoe in Yorkshire often experience blazes as cars and businesses are set alight by thugs - but during the day, the village is completely different

Randy Nethken, from West Virginia, has been arrested and charged with first-degree arson after he is accused of setting fire in the attic of his own home

Real-life Goodfellas mobster Vincent 'Vinny' Asaro, a captain in the Bonanno crime family, has died at the age of 86, three years after being released from prison early due to ill health and Covid fears

According to the New Orleans Police Department, three children died in a house fire overnight, with a local child services department leading the investigation into the incident where the mother alleges that the father intentionally set the home ablaze

The Tilted Barrel is just five miles away in Tipton, West Midlands, from its demolished counterpart the Crooked House which was burnt down in a suspected arson attack

Craig Ford, from Wavertree, is believed to have set fire to his cell at HMP Berwyn, in Wrexham, with a vape and then punched a prison guard in the face when she came to help

Police said they want to speak with the man over a series of terrifying arson attacks that left victims "shaken" in their homes, and revealed that he is believed to be carrying a Rambo knife

Christopher Chapman, who once designed luxury buildings including the Clarendon Fine Art Gallery in Mayfair, has been struck off after he was jailed for setting a client's Range Rover on fire