Artist set off firework to impress girlfriend then went to prison for starting £500,000 blaze
Artist set off firework to impress girlfriend then went to prison for starting £500,000 blaze
More than 100 firefighters had to be called to fight the blaze (Picture: Getty Images)
An artist has been jailed after starting a devastating moorlands inferno which caused £500,000 worth of damage — when he set off a firework for his girlfriend.
More than 100 firefighters had to be called in to tackle the mile-long blaze after Viktor Riedly, 28, torched 285 hectares of land in an ‘act of gross…