Police probe torching of Covid ‘hoax’ caravan
Prominent protest beside A77 targeted by firebugs
Police are probing an antiCovid graffitied caravan which was torched to the ground on the A77.
The caravan, owned by Scottish election candidate Mandy McConechy, from Ayr, carried an anti-coronavirus message branding COVID-19 as a ‘hoax.’
The vehicle sat on farmland just off the A77 near Whitletts roundabout and was set alight just before 2am on Easter Monday.
It posed questions to passing traffic, including: “What pandemic? It’s flu” and “Name one vaccine ingredient that makes us healthy...I’ll wait”.
One half of the white caravan compared death rates from 2018 and 2020.
Therapist Ms McConechy said: “I got up in the morning and it was burnt to the ground, it was just a wee puff of smoke.
“My neighbour across the road saw it at around 1.45am and a couple of minutes later the fire service arrived with the police and ambulance in tow.
“It’s quite far away from my house, so I didn’t even know until the morning as the services weren’t using sirens because it was the middle of the night and in residential area.”
Ms McConechy is running for a South Scotland Region List spot for Freedom Alliance, a newly-formed party who aim to protect ‘personal liberty, sovereignty, and human rights’ and challenge lockdowns, vaccination and testing mandates.
On her party’s policies, she claims: “Lockdowns don’t work and we should never have been locked down.
“Politics was never, ever in my agenda. I don’t want to be a politician but I can’t sit and watch this happen any longer.”
A Police Scotland spokesperson
said: “Around 2am on Monday, April, 5, police were called with
regard to a caravan on fire on farmland off the A77 near the
Whitletts roundabout, Ayr. Enquiriesareongoing.”
I got up in the morning and it was burnt to the ground, it was just a wee puff of smoke.