A reward of £1,000 is being offered to anyone who can help an Aberdeen man to catch the culprits who set fire to his caravan, which he had only owned for three weeks.
Andrew Mewse was asleep with his family when the blaze began at 1am on the morning of Sunday (October 2nd) in two bins outside his home, the Aberdeen Press and Journal reports.
The fire quickly spread to his £5,000 tourer and the gas cylinders in the front locker, forcing the family to evacuate their home.
Grampian Police and Grampian Fire and Rescue are investigating the cause of the blaze and Mr Mewse has personally promised a £1,000 bounty to anyone who can help catch the arsonists.
His wife Laura told STV: “We had three children sleeping upstairs, so we hurried to get them out. But within minutes, the fire was just out of control. It could have been a lot worse than it actually was.”
In other news, firefighters in Cambridgeshire have warned caravan owners about the dangers of hair straighteners, after two tourers were engulfed in a blaze in Whittlesey last Friday (September 30th).
