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Arsonists torch caravan next to police station

"You would think someone might have noticed" said the owner

A caravan owner has been left devastated and shocked after her mobile home was torched by arsonists while parked just metres from a police station.

The incident occurred on Portal Avenue next to Suffolk Police Headquarters on January 2nd.

Despite wishing to remain nameless, the caravan’s female owner expressed her dismay that nobody has come forward with information on the crime.

She is offering a £1,000 reward to those who help convict the arsonists and revealed that cars leaving the police station have a good view of where it was located.

“We worked out there must have been around 400 people [in the building] and you would think someone might have noticed,” she told the East Anglia Daily Times.

The owner revealed that the crime could have turned to tragedy as she had realised a few weeks earlier that someone had forced entry to the mobile home and was using it as temporary accommodation.

The kind-hearted woman revealed that she had let the person stay there as she was concerned for their wellbeing in the snow over the Christmas period.

According to the Met Office, heavy snow is forecast for Yorkshire and Humber today (January 11th) and Wales tomorrow.