HICKS: ARSONIST JAILED FOR SCHOOL ATTACKS

A firebug who caused almost £30,000 worth of damage in three separate arson attacks on a school has been jailed for 28 months. Charles Hicks, 22, set fire to a large shipping container on the school’s Gosfield Road site, in Dagenham, in the early hours on 5 January this year. The container was full of cleaning products and the blaze caused £12,000 in damage. A school caretaker was awoken for the second time in the early hours of 18 January…