Jail for firebug who torched sleeping homeless men for a joke

Croydon

A firebug who thought it was funny to set two homeless men on fire as they slept has been jailed for eight years. Montel Nowhia-Job, 24, set small fires with paper near the victims’ sleeping bags in George Street and nearby Surrey Street, Croydon, in the early hours of 10 June 2019. The men woke up to find themselves on fire, and suffered burns as they put themselves out with their bare hands. Paramedics treated the men, Andy Hillerby and…

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