South Africa
Police hunting for serial arsonist─── 11:37 Mon, 12 Sep 2022
Gauteng police are hunting for Sentious Novans, who is suspected to be involved in multiple cases of arson in Johannesburg.
This after Novans was previously sentenced to seven years of which four years was suspended for five years.
“Novans is involved in multiple cases of arson, murder and residential burglaries that had occurred in the Eastern and Northern parts of Johannesburg in the previous months,” says police spokesperson Dimakatso Sello.
“In all the incidents, the suspect would break in at affluent houses and, after stealing property, set the houses alight.