On the news, it seems like at least once a week, we report on cases of alleged arson - but there's very rarely an arrest. And that's what makes tonight different. Forty five year old Roy Mangar is behind bars at the Belize Central Prison on an arson charge after he allegedly set his step-father's house on fire over the long weekend.
It happened on Saturday night on "Chips Alley" in the Louisiana Area of Orange Walk Town.
Around 7:30 56 year old Lincoln Pratt was at work when hiss neighbors ran to tell him that his 18 by 20 feet wooden house was on fire. Pratt told CTV-3 that his stepson had told him he would burn down the house as a form of retaliation for abuse:...
Voice of: Lincoln Pratt - Fire Victim
"He told me, he didn't say he will burn it, but he said he will show me something, he said I haven't forgotten how you used to chance all of us when we were small. I told him that he was an ungrateful person. They are people who saw him when he started the fire. I didn't see anything, it was the neighbors. They were the ones who called me and told me that they saw him when he light the areas. But when I reached, I felt so bad as everything burned and for sure I need some kind of assistance, because I'm here but it's like I'm lost. The thing that hurts me is that I raised this young boy from he was little. So right now I still have this in my head, it doesn't matter how much years he got. I cannot just overlook it, because I raised this young boy and it really pains me."
Pratt says the total amount of losses is more than seven thousand dollars.
Roy Mangar was denied bail and was remanded to prison. He re-appears in court on the 27th of June.
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