A 41-year-old man has been charged with deliberately lighting five separate fires which tore through central Perth and Kings Park in the last week.
A 41-year-old man has been charged following a series of suspicious fires throughout central Perth and Kings Park.The man allegedly set alight vegetation halfway up the staircase before the fire rapidly spread, coming dangerously close to an apartment complex.He has also been charged with deliberately lighting four separate fires across Kings Park last week.
Police allege on October 24, the man set fire to long grass on the verge adjacent to a nursing home on Williams Road in Nedlands.Police said they arrested a man with no fixed address opposite Jacobs Ladder near Mounts Bay Road. He has been charged with five counts of wilfully light or cause to be lit a fire likely to Injure or Damage.He is due to appear before the Perth Magistrates Court today.
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