Police hunt teens for setting Airdrie house fires

Police think two teenagers may have been responsible for starting two fires at the same house in Plains two nights running.

A window of a BMW on Jarvie Avenue was smashed and a flame thrown in at 5 o clock on Monday morning.

They did the same on Tuesday morning and detectives want to speak to anyone who saw it happening.

Detective Constable Craig McLean is investigating. He said:

"These incidents were terrifying for the residents of the property to experience and it is only by sheer luck that no one was injured in either incident.

"Whilst our enquiries so far suggest that these incidents were targeted and not random, this doesn’t make it any less serious. I would ask anyone who may have seen anything suspicious around the time of any of the incidents to contact us with any information they have.

"Wallace Street is very residential with a number of properties in the vicinity so I am confident that there will be someone in the area who may have witnessed one of these or both of these incidents. I would ask them to contact us or contact Crimestoppers in confidence via 0800 555 111."

Anyone with information is asked to contact Coatbridge CID via 101 quoting either reference number 0654 of 13 May or reference number 0336 of 14 May.