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March 24th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda - Campaign cost trucking firm £1m and drivers refused to sleep in their cabs fearing blazes
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Leon Watson
05:00 EST, 23 March 2012
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06:09 EST, 23 March 2012
Jailed: Ronald Day, 53, was jailed after an arson campaign in various parts of the country sparked panic among other drivers
A long distance trucker who hated his job set fire to 14 of his employer’s lorries over a two-and-a-half year period.
Ronald Day, 53, from Liverpool, was jailed for seven years.
Chester Crown Court heard how his arson campaign in various parts of the country sparked panic among other drivers, who refused to sleep in their cabs at night because they feared there may be a fault which caused spontaneous combustion.
His employers, The Stobart Group, lost more than £1million – half a million in the cost of the damage, £300,000 in
getting replacement vehicles to keep the business going, and the cost of
a detailed probe into what was going wrong.
It also temporarily harmed the business relationship that Stobarts had with Swedish truck manufacturer Scania.
The haulier spent £42million a year with Scania and ran 2,000 of its vehicles.
Scania
launched a major investigation which showed that it was not to blame –
that there was no inherent manufacturing or electrical fault in the
lorry cabs.
It spent more than £100,000 on the wholly unnecessary investigation – because all fires were started by Day who held cigarettes under the passenger side dashboard causing damage to electrical wiring. The lorries were then gutted or severely damaged.
In some cases the fire spread to other vehicles. While there were no injuries, some vehicles were set alight close to whether other drivers were asleep in their cabs, or close to re-fuelling areas.
Costly: The Stobart Group, lost over £1million – half a million in the cost of the damage, £300,000 in getting replacement vehicles to keep the business going, and the cost of a probe
Martin McRobb, prosecuting, said that in September of last year Stobart investigators established Day was the only one of its 2,000 employees who was present each time there was a fire.
They kept watch as Day went into the cab of a tractor unit in Stockport with a cigarette and he was arrested.
It turned out that between January 2009 and September last year he had been responsible for setting fire to 14 lorries at the Proctor and Gamble depot in Trafford Park, Manchester; Appleton in Warrington, Crick in Northampton, Sherburn in Leeds, Chelford in Stockport and Aveley in Essex.
In two of the fires, they had been deliberately re-ignited after fire fighters extinguished them.
Mark LeBroq, defending, said Day – who in 1995 was placed on probation in Manchester Crown Court for three arson attacks on the lorries owned by a previous employer – did not hold out any malice towards his employer. On the contrary, he said they had treated him very well.
But he grew to hate the job – driving up to eight hours a day and then sleeping in the cab, a lonely life called ‘tramping’ by those who did it.
He was in debt and felt that he was working all hours and it was not getting him nowhere. Day could see no way out and acted when he was depressed and in a ‘distorted frame of mind’.
Since the proceedings had started he had renewed hope after two daughters and four grandchildren who he did not know existed had come forward and contacted him.
The Recorder of Chester, Judge Elgan Edwards, said that Day, who admitted 14 charges of arson, had simply done it ‘again and again and again’.
He knew the fires were causing great concern to his employers, to the truck manufacturers, and to his colleagues who understandably were worried about sleeping in the cabs with fires apparently occurring spontaneously.
‘The fact is that they were occurring because you were setting them off,’ he said.
The public had a right to be protected from arsonists and Day, of no fixed abode, would receive a seven year sentence which was the minimum consistent with his public duty, the judge said.
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this lowlife should get life.
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He didn’t like his job? I’ve had some I didn’t like. Went and got another one. It never occurred to me that if you don’t like your job you should commit arson. So that’s where I was going wrong!
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this man deserves jailing but his employers did have a duty of care towards his wellfare.
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Discontent exists among many lorry drivers (my father himself is one), but to go so far as to endanger the lives of your colleagues for the sake of a grudge is sheer madness.
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Cant wait to see that on Channel 5!!!!!!!!
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Only the other day a young boy was killed by a man driving a Porche . He got 6 and half years . Our Justice system needs looking at .
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