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Wednesday, 3rd September 2008

Christopher Foster certainly wanted to make sure that the house really did burn down:

Foster, 50, whose company made a fortune selling pipe insulation technology to the oil and gas industries, laid pipes from a huge tank supplying his oil-run central heating system and ran them to the stables, garage and main house.

He then ran the oil off and used it as an accelerant to ensure the £1.2 million property was razed to the ground.

Here's the bit I don't get though. He's constantly referred to as "the arson millionaire, Christopher Foster".

But, umm, isn't the actual point that he wasn't a millionaire? That he had in fact less than no money at all? And thus the arson?

 


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Commondog

September 3rd, 2008 9:28pm

How very right you are; and how lacking in human decency.

A man is driven to destroy his family and you see fit to remark on such a slight observation.

Stunning misplacement of interest. Do you think these events are part of a film?

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