Overview
- Milo Creese, who appeared by videolink Wednesday, pleaded not guilty to eight charges at the Old Bailey.
- The counts include arson with intent to endanger life, three further arson offences, possessing a crossbow in public, damaging property, and two assaults on emergency workers.
- Prosecutors allege he burned an Indian restaurant on October 31 and then attacked Mobile Broadband Network sites twice in November, causing thousands of pounds of damage.
- Police say the November 21 mast fire on Bittams Lane in Ottershaw started in a rucksack near a can of brake cleaner that Creese had bought six days earlier, and they reported no injuries.
- Judge Richard Marks KC set a June 19 hearing and a 10-day trial from September 1, and ordered Creese remanded in custody.