Arsonists cause over a million pounds in damages to Sussex farms

Two arsonists who caused more than £1 million in damages to farms across Sussex have been sentenced.

Police officers from Sussex said Joshua Brinkley, 20, of Polegate, and Connor Luck, 21, of Uckfield, had deliberately set fire to abandoned buildings, agricultural barns, farmland and haybales which caused an estimated total of £1,117,825 in damages.

At sentencing on October 30, Lewes Crown Court heard details regarding eight incidents of arson which had occurred between June 2021 and November 2021 on farmland in Horsham, Wivelsfield Green, Lower Willingdon, Beddingham, Alfriston, Ringmer, Tarring Neville and Seaford - requiring the assistance of firefighters from East Sussex Fire and Rescue.