A Filton man who carried out a "wanton campaign of destruction" by torching multiple vehicles in Bradley Stoke and Stoke Gifford has been jailed. Daniel Cron was with an unidentified man when he set fire to the vehicles - including community group vans - in the early hours of April 3 last year.
Bristol Crown Court heard the trial of destruction caused £321, 544.77 damage. Cron, 26, of Eleventh Avenue in Filton, pleaded guilty to 21 charges of arson.
Judge Martin Picton jailed him for three years. Describing what happened as a "wanton campaign of destruction". He told Cron: "I don't know what possessed you and the other person that night to go and do this.