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Rachael Ward

Adversarial neighbour protests innocence at burnt club

A man, right, says he threatened to burn down a controversial nightclub that later caught fire. (Diego Fedele/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

As Jake Hughes stood among the charred remains of the floating nightclub he spent years creating, a man claiming to be a neighbour shouted about previously threatening to burn it down.

The Atet club in Melbourne's Docklands went up in flames about 4.30am on Tuesday and Victoria Police are treating the blaze as suspicious.

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