A dopey holidaymaker who 'smoked in bed' while boozing sent a property investor's rental flat up in flames - causing £12,000-worth of damage. Ryan Luke's company offers short-stay rentals and he had let the two-bedroom flat in Durham to a young male when the accident happened in October.
The man is believed to have sent the mattress he was lay on up in flames by smoking a cigarette and drinking in bed, which soon set the property alight. Ryan says he was holidaying in Miami at the time of the accident when we received a call from his team to inform him about the extensive damage, which had 'fried' all of the electrics in the property.
The 38-year-old has now shared shocking photos of the scorched flat, including a disintegrated mattress, charred walls and melted carpet, as his company embarks on the renovation process. Ryan, from Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, said: "There was a youth in the property and whatever happened the mattress was set alight in his room and obviously it just got out of control and the property burned.
