LONDON RIOTS: MAN JAILED FOR FURNITURE STORE ARSON
Via BBC News A looter has been jailed for 11-and-a-half years for starting a fire which destroyed a family-run furniture shop in south London in the summer riots. Gordon Thompson, 34, stole a laptop from the House of Reeves in Croydon on 8 August before setting fire to a sofa. The Old Bailey trial in February heard that he told another man “it was me” as he walked away from the blaze. Thompson, of Waddon Road, Croydon, changed his plea to guilty […]