‘If I set fire to the mosque it was an accident’

  A 14-year-old boy accused of setting fire to Europe’s largest mosque causing £12m worth of damage has been cleared of arson. The teenager was arrested after CCTV footage captured him walking out of a store cupboard in Baitul Futuh mosque in Morden, south London, minutes before it erupted into flames. He used a barbecue lighter to ignite flammable gel in the larder on 26 September 2015, it was claimed. Management at the mosque had been prepared for a wedding…