Boy used barbecue lighter to torch Europe’s largest mosque

A 14-year-old boy set fire to Europe’s largest mosque causing £12m worth of damage a day after the building was packed with 13,000 worshippers celebrating Eid, a court heard. The teenager, who cannot be named, allegedly used a barbecue lighter to ignite flammable gel in a kitchen store cupboard at the Baitul Futuh mosque, in Morden, south London. Management at the mosque had been prepared for a wedding on the day of the blaze, on 26 September 2015, jurors heard….