Trial for 16 year olds accused of restaurant fire

Two 16-year-old boys accused of setting an Indian restaurant ablaze, leaving six people injured will stand trial in December. Three women and three men were taken to hospital after the blaze at the Indian Aroma restaurant on Woodford Avenue in Gants Hill, Ilford, at 9pm on 22 August last year. Staff and customers were inside the restaurant when masked men walked in and petrol was poured around the premises, it is said. The eatery was engulfed in flames leaving one…