On Friday 2nd September 2016, 19-year-old Stavon Harris of Five Cays Providenciales was sentenced to three (3) years imprisonment for two counts of setting fire to a building and one count of setting fire to a dwelling-house.
As a result of a report made on Thursday 14th January 2016 around 4:17 PM, a complainant stated that there was a fire behind the Enid Capron Primary School in Five Cays, Providenciales. Police Officers and Fire Personnel, Social Services, Red Cross officials and other emergency units visited the scene where a number of wooden structure houses were ablaze.
The investigation revealed that Mr. Harris who after a fight with his brother earlier, got a bleach gallon bottle which contained gas, threw it on the home that he and his brother occupied and ignited it with a lighter. The blaze which took firefighters almost two (2) hours to contain, had spread and destroyed other structure homes nearby.
No one was injured during the fire.
Stavon Harris was later arrested and charged with the offenses.