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Burmantofts arson attack: Youth arrested
Police investigating a suspected arson attack on a CCTV camera control box in Burmantofts have arrested a 17-year-old.
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Officers alerted by a member of the public to the scene on parkland near to Torre Mount found a crowbar jammed in the control box door along with papers.
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Nearby were an abandoned aerosol can and a torn copy of a Yellow Pages.
Officers searched the area and arrested a youth nearby on suspicion of arson with intent and an unconnected breach of a court order.
In August last year in separate incidents two out of three CCTV cameras located in the Burmantofts area were substantially damaged by a vandal attack and put out of action.
The cameras were reinstated in June this year, at a believed cost of 20,000.
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