Gordon Thompson Sentenced to 11-and-a-half years in prison for setting fire to the Reeves furniture store in Croydon during London Riots



Gordon Thompson has been sentenced to 11-and-a-half years in prison for setting fire to the Reeves furniture store in Croydon during the London riots.

Thompson, 34, was sentenced at the Old Bailey for arson, being reckless as to whether life was endangered and burglary.

He was part of a mob which had rampaged through Croydon town centre, looting Iceland and House of Fraser, before turning his attention to family-run House of Reeves.

The blaze was so fierce that buildings on the other side of the street and tramlines in the road caught alight.

Judge Peter Thornton told Thompson: "This was a deliberate, wilful act of shocking, dangerous vandalism."

"The Reeves family lost their historic business, something they and generations before had lived and worked for all their lives. Read More

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