Booze-binge dad who set vans on fire is spared jail
Manchester Evening News|May 18, 2023
A DAD was spared jail after setting two vans alight close to their owners’ properties after a drinks binge
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Booze-binge dad who set vans on fire is spared jail

Andrew Abbott drank a ‘prodigious’ amount of alcohol on the evening of April 22 last year before setting the vehicles on fire in a ‘spontaneous’ and ‘ludicrous’ hour. Between 10 and 11pm on that evening police received reports of a vehicle being set alight on Longworth Road in Bolton. The first victim, Darren Smethurst, was at home with his family when he received a call from a neighbour telling him his van was on fire.

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