Monday 12 April 2010

TWO MORE QUIZZED IN ATHERSTONE FIRE

FURTHER arrests have been made in connection with a warehouse blaze in Warwickshire which killed four firefighters.

Warwickshire Police said that two men have been bailed in connection with the fire. They join six others, who were arrested in February and March, on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter.

They all remain on police bail pending further inquiries.

A Warwickshire Police spokesman said the men, believed to be fire service staff, were arrested and questioned on suspicion of misconduct in a public office.

Ashley Stephens, 20, Darren Yates-Badley, 24, John Averis, 27, and Ian Reid, 44, died in
the fire at a vegetable packing plant in Atherstone on Stour in November 2007.

A police spokesman added: “Two men, who were arrested on Wednesday April 7 in connection with the fatal fire at Atherstone on Stour in November 2007, have been released on police bail pending further inquiries. The men, aged 49 and 59 and from the south of the county, presented themselves at a police station in Warwickshire where they were arrested on suspicion of misconduct in a public office.”

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