POLICE PROBE BLAZE WEEKS AFTER SNACK VAN WAR
Hunt to find owner of mobile home
A probe is underway after a suspected arsonist torched a caravan - only weeks after a snack van war.
Flames ripped through the large caravan on Saturday night on the A70 layby near Dobbies Garden
Centre.
John McCubbin, 72, who has worked at the layby for 22 years told the Post: “The caravan went on fire and it’s a pure eyesore.”
A home left by the side of a main road for about seven weeks has been destroyed by fire.
Flames ripped through the caravan on Saturday at 9.20pm on the A70 layby near Dobbies Garden Centre.
Businessman Walter Mcindoe who owns land on the layby said: “It is not my caravan.
“I have talked to the owner for a number of weeks telling him it needs to be moved. “It has been vandalised.” The blaze comes only weeks after a snack van war.
John ‘ Jock’ McCubbin, 72, who has worked at the layby for 22 years, says he now feels ‘ depressed’ over the snack bar turf war which left him fearing his livelihood.
He spoke out after Walter McIndoe revealed his plans to open a £ 30,000 catering business to be set up just yards from Jocks.
Grandad- of- ten Jock, from Drongan, said: “The caravan went on fire and it’s an eyesore.
“I was in my bed and got told about it the next day.
“I can’t get out to work.
“I got all my stuff ready yesterday morning- my links, my sausages and burgers and I went to go down and my friend phoned me up and told me the lay- by was shut, so that was all that food getting wasted.”
Large boulders have barricaded off each entrance of the layby for days.
Mr McIndoe said he had to block it off to stop fly tipping and the land is no longer operational as a ‘ layby.’
A police spokesman said enqurires are ongoing into the blaze and identify the caravan’s owner.