A South Australian CFS volunteer is found guilty of lighting the Cherry Gardens bushfire in 2021that destroyed two home and razed almost 3,000 hectares.
A Country Fire Service volunteer of more than 30 years has been found guilty by a District Court jury of lighting several bushfires in the Adelaide Hills while drunk on a day of extreme heat in January 2021.Former CFS volunteer Gregory McGannon has been found guilty of lighting bushfires in January 2021McGannon was found drunk by police at the scene of a spot fire
Police body warn vision showed McGannon at the scene of a sport fire on Hicks Hill Road at Cherry Gardens, where he told officers that he saw the person who lit the fires."The bastard lit it, I saw him light it and I thought you bloody idiot," he said. Defence lawyers for McGannon had argued that it could not be proven the multiple fires were lit by the same person.
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