 | | Raging: the fire that laid waste to almost £5 worth of fuel |
"I just put a match to it, and up it went in a matter of minutes," Olver explained to The Ferret. "Gone. Nothing left but ashes." Asked whether she would have acted differently in the light of what happened, she replied, "I deeply regret what I did. If I had another chance, I wouldn't have gone near those matches."
In the light of Mrs. Olver's full and immediate confession, and the "clearly unintentional nature of the incident," Warwickshire Police will not press charges.
Friends and neighbours of the Olvers have already set up a charity fund to replace the family's lost wood and coal. Mike Sheehan, a close friend of the family, estimates that "[the fund] should be able to replace their losses within a few days." Added Sheehan, joking: "But they won't get a twig until Dawn promises she's learned her lesson, and won't go burning anything else!"
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