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Drunk man sets fire to caravan while still inside

The homeless man broke into the caravan in a bid to keep warm

By Tom Walsh

A drunk set fire to a caravan in Bournemouth while he was still inside, according to local reports.

The inebriated man broke into the mobile home in the car park of Ensbury Hotel off Columbia Road on Friday morning (1 March) and set a kitchen drawer alight to keep himself warm, the Daily Echo reports.

However, the blaze grew and the vehicle’s owner, Piotr Kalisz, was notified and hurried to the scene.

Mr Kalisz was staying at the nearby hotel and went to find the homeless man lying on his bed and refused to move despite the owner’s attempts to move him.

He then took the drawer outside and police, fire crews and ambulances were called, but the drunk simply wandered off.

Mr Kalisz told the source: “We can’t really do anything because he is homeless. I wouldn’t be able to get the money for the damage and I was worried about what he might do if I asked the police to take him away.”

The incident comes after a serial caravan “squatter” was given a suspended jail sentence for breaking into a host of mobile homes across the Dorset, Devon and Cornwall region.

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