A person has been charged after a significant hearth at an MP’s constituency workplace.
Joshua Oliver, 28, has been charged with arson after a blaze on the workplace of Labour MP Sharon Hodgson, at Vermont Home in Washington, Tyne and Put on.
The hearth additionally wrecked a charity base and an NHS psychological well being service for veterans.
Oliver will seem at Newcastle Magistrates’ Court docket on Saturday.
Hodgson, who has been an MP since 2005, successful her seat once more in 2019. Pic: Reuters
Northumbria Police beforehand stated it was “alerted to a hearth at a premises on Woodland Terrace within the Washington space” shortly after 12.20am on Thursday.
“Emergency companies attended and nobody is reported to have been injured within the incident,” it added.
Drone footage from the scene exhibits in depth injury to the constructing.
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A spokesperson for the Crown Prosecution Service stated: “Our prosecutors have labored to ascertain that there’s enough proof to deliver the case to trial and that it’s within the public curiosity to pursue prison proceedings.
“We’ve got labored carefully with Northumbria Police as they carried out their investigation.”
