{"id":5484,"date":"2013-03-01T17:28:38","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T17:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=5484"},"modified":"2013-03-01T17:28:38","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T17:28:38","slug":"four-in-prison-for-he-arson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=5484","title":{"rendered":"Four in prison for HE arson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Four men have been sentenced for an arson which caused substantial damage to a former grand country house in Somerset, Sandhill Park at Bishops Lydeard<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Stuart Walter, 23, of Lympsham, Nathan Goldfinch and Marcus Tancock, both 20 and from Weston, and Liam Grant, 19, of Cheddar all pleaded guilty to arson.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018particularly dangerous\u2019 fire, at Sandhill Park, cost Devon and Somerset Fire \u00a330,000 to deal with, Taunton Crown Court heard.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Timothy Mousley said it was an \u2018extreme case of mindless vandalism, planned and carefully executed\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Tancock was sentenced to a total of 27 months for arson and dangerous driving.<\/p>\n<p>Walter and Goldfinch were sentenced to 12 and 18 months respectively for arson.<\/p>\n<p>Grant was sentenced to a total of 21 months for arson and two counts of fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Jailing the men Judge Timothy Mousley QC said: \u2018Custodial sentences are justified for each of you, such is the seriousness of the offence.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Veryan Heal, from English Heritage, said at the time of the fire Sandhill Park was on its \u2018at risk\u2019 register.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018People who target historic buildings are threatening a unique part of the country&#8217;s heritage,\u2019 Ms Heal said. \u2018We hope that this [sentence] may serve as a deterrent to others who have little respect for England&#8217;s built heritage.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>All three accused appeared before the court accused of starting the fire which badly damaged the mansion, near Bishops Lydeard, on 22 November 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Then firefighters were hampered by a lack of water at the scene and had to run hoses more than a mile long to a nearby health farm to get water.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze started on the first floor and spread to the remainder of the building including the roof space.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">BBC News<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-somerset-21620818\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">English Heritage News<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.english-heritage.org.uk\/about\/news\/sandhill-park-arson\/\" target=\"_blank\">LINK <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four men have been sentenced for an arson which caused substantial damage to a former grand country house in Somerset, Sandhill Park at Bishops Lydeard Stuart Walter, 23, of Lympsham, Nathan Goldfinch and Marcus Tancock, both 20 and from Weston, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=5484\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5485,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484\/revisions\/5485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}