SEX TOYS FIRE-BUG IS JAILED
155MPH COP CHASE
AN arsonist set fire to his pregnant girlfriend’s sex toys and threatened to burn down their house.
Charles Hollingsworth used petrol to torch the marital aids after a row.
The 24-year-old confronted his terrified girlfriend when she arrived home in the early hours.
The couple had argued earlier after he found her while she was out with friends in Cleethorpes, Lincs.
She returned to their nearby home to find his van parked outside.
Hollingsworth confronted her and threw her belongings into the street.
He then warned her: “If you keep carrying on, I will set the house on fire.”
Then he fetched a box of her sex toys – still in TWO men were charged over raids on cash machines after a 155mph police chase across two counties.
Police said they were remanded on conspiracy to burgle charges after an ATM was ripped out at a supermarket and an attempt was made to take another from the wall of a cinema.
Both incidents happened in the early hours of the morning at the Showcase their plastic and cardboard packaging – and put them outside the front door.
Finally, Hollingsworth set them alight using petrol he had bought for a quad bike, and the flames spread. His lover and her friend desperately tried to put them out using water from the kitchen. The woman, who has three children, said later: “I was really scared.” Hollingsworth, from Grimsby, admitted arson and being reckless as to whether life was endangered on June 10.
He also pleaded guilty to having no insurance or driving licence on the same day. He was jailed for two-and-ahalf years at Grimsby Crown Court and banned from driving for two years. Michele Stuart-Lofthouse, defending, said that Hollingsworth now regretted his behaviour. Cinema in Winnersh, Berks, and at a Londis shop in Sunninghill, Berks.
Lee Healy, 31, from Lambeth, south London, and Anthony O’ Connell, 26, of Tadworth, Surrey, were charged with conspiracy to commit burglary.
They were remanded in custody by Slough magistrates.