UK contractor offers reward to help catch arsonists that destroyed high reach excavator.
The boss of a Bradford-based company has offered a “substantial” reward for help in convicting arsonists who burned out a £330,000 high reach demolition machine. At least £100,000 of damage was caused to the state-of-the-art high-reach machine when it was set alight in Heckmondwike.
The machine, which belonged to Thomas Crompton, had been used to demolish a mill at the Flush Mills site in Westgate and was parked in a secure unit at the side of the road. Company owner Thomas Crompton said he was waiting to hear whether the high-reach machine could be repaired or would be written off.
He said: “We are offering a substantial reward for information leading to the conviction of the person or persons responsible. We don’t want to let our customers down and we have got a replacement machine coming from Belgium so that none of our contracts are affected.”
Read the full story here.
