Vehicles on fire after arson attack in Patchway

A man who set fire to 20 vehicles causing hundreds of thousands of pounds of damage has been jailed.
Daniel Cron, 26, of Filton, appeared at Bristol Crown Court, where he was sentenced to three years in prison having pleaded guilty to 21 counts of arson – 20 vehicles and a fence – at a previous hearing.
Cron, along with an as yet unidentified man, set fire to both private and commercial vehicles in the Bradley Stoke and Stoke Gifford areas of South Gloucestershire in the early hours of April 3 last year.
A large number of the vehicles were minibuses which belonged to a community group which provided transport services for vulnerable adults and children.
Following the incident, detectives appealed for the public’s help to identify CCTV footage which could aid their investigation.
Dozens of people submitted footage from their private CCTV, doorbell cameras and dashcam.Using the footage, officers then tracked Cron and the other man as he set fire to the vehicles over a three-and-a-half-hour period.