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Hartlepool Car Fires
Hartlepool Mail
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18/08/2023
Police are investigating a series of car fires overnight on August 17-18.
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in Baden Street and with Katie whose car was set on fire last night. Do you know what happened
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Katie? Not roughly, no. All I can remember from about half past one this morning just
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seeing orange blaze everywhere outside the window, just hearing neighbours scream get
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out of the house, get out of the house. Couldn't get out of the house, we were fighting against
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black smoke to get down the stairs. We managed to get out of the house through the back door
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by the back lane and then down onto this street to see our car just in flames. So do you think
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you were singularly targeted or do you think it was just something happened out of the town? It
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was just someone going on a rampage, we just wanted to torture some cars and get some joy out of it
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but the guy doesn't realise how many lives he's wrecked. He's stopped people from going to work,
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going to hospital, apartments. It's just shocking. What would you say to anybody who may have some
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information about this? Just please reach out to Cleveland Police. Okay Jonathan, so what have you
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heard about these incidents? Well obviously it's a really terrible incident taking place overnight,
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not just here but on several streets here in the town centre and Hartlepool. Enough is really
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enough. You know people are living scared in their own homes by this sort of lawless crime and
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anti-social behaviour. I've been in touch with the police this morning, CID have taken over the
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investigation. There will be extra patrols tonight and through the weekend to try and make sure
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there's no repeat of this but we need these people caught, we need them put in jail and kept away
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from civilised society because people have a right to feel safe and this sort of incident is doing
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the exact opposite of that. What we need to see now is the results to make sure there's no repeat
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of these incidents tonight and into the weekend and fundamentally we need these people caught
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and brought to justice so that people can feel safe. Have you spoken to residents about what
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they're saying about this? I've spoken to a couple of residents this morning already, yes I've been
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down here. Look, people are shocked, it's understandable that they're shocked and what
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our job as politicians, working with the police and with our fire service is to reassure them that
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we are working to try and solve these issues.
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