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News Timeline of destruction
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01:09 01:33 01:42 02:30 03:09 03:42 04:20
New Road, Stoke Gifford: One van set on fire Gatcombe Drive, Stoke Gifford: Two cars set on fire Sandringham Road: One car set on fire Jubilee Centre, Bradley Stoke: Two trucks set on fire Little Stoke Park, Little Stoke: Two trucks set on fire Rolls-Royce, Patchway: 15 minibuses set on fire Sherbourne Avenue, Bradley Stoke: One car set on fire
Note: Times shown are time of call to the emergency services
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26-year-old Filton man has been charged with 24 counts of arson after vehicles with a total estimated replacement value of £400,000 were destroyed at seven locations across the Stokes and Patchway in the early hours of Sunday 3rd April. The trail of destruction began at around 1am when a van was set alight in New Road, Stoke Gifford (close to the Travis Perkins depot). Half-an-hour later, the fire service responded to three cars ablaze in Gatcombe Drive and Sandringham Road (both Stoke Gifford), less than a mile from the location of the first incident. Around 45 minutes later, two council trucks were on fire in the car park at the Jubilee Centre, Bradley Stoke (about 1.5 miles from Stoke Gifford), followed around 40 minutes later by two more council trucks going up in flames in the car park at Little Stoke Park (less than a mile from the Jubilee Centre). Just over half-an-hour later,
May 2022
15 minibuses belonging to two local charities were ablaze in a car park at Rolls-Royce, Patchway, just over the railway footbridge from Little Stoke Park. The arson spree finally ended at 4.20am, over three hours after it had begun, when a car was torched in Sherbourne Avenue, Bradley Stoke. Following the shocking sequence of incidents, police put out an appeal for CCTV, door camera or dash cam footage which had captured “two suspicious people” between 1am and 4.40am on the day of the incidents. Two days later, on 6th April, police released two CCTV clips, each showing “two individuals believed to be teenage boys or young men” who they were looking to trace. This was followed on 9th April by the news that two teenage boys, aged 14 and 15, had been arrested on suspicion of arson. A further development in the case came on 27th April when it
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