Police have launched a picture of the person suspected to be the Johannesburg northern suburbs arsonist.
- Police have recognized a suspect within the Johannesburg Northern suburb arson instances.
- The suspect is accused of a number of instances of arson, homicide, and housebreaking.
- His picture comes from footage taken from inside one of many properties he entered.
A person referred to as Sentious Novans is being sought by police who, after two years, have give you a reputation and picture of the person believed to be the Johannesburg’s Northern suburbs arsonist.
Police spokesperson Colonel Dimakatso Sello recognized Novans as a suspect in a number of instances of arson, homicide, and housebreaking and urged the general public to return ahead with any data that can observe him down.
He was seen in footage in and round properties that had been cat burgled and, or, set alight.
The arsonist is believed to have been focusing on properties in upmarket suburbs since not less than 2020 and has allegedly been chargeable for setting not less than 20 buildings alight.
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He is believed to work alone and enters upmarket properties within the early hours of the morning, focusing on aged householders.
The arsonist spends time within the kitchen, consuming and ingesting and has even been daring sufficient to prepare dinner meals for himself. Once completed he units fireplace to mattresses or blankets utilizing an accelerant.
The fires have been began round 04:00 in each case.
Sello mentioned Novans served a earlier jail sentence of seven years of which 4 years had been suspended for 5 years.
In the start, the arsonist would begin fires in properties when the householders had been away. But of late the arsonist has been setting fires in properties with the house owners current.
The arsonist has focused properties in Craighall, Illovo, Hyde Park, Dunkeld, Bryanston, Houghton, and this week a house in Melrose.
Fidelity ADT CEO Wahl Bartmann has provided a R100 000 award for data that results in the seize of the suspect.
