article_snippet.sent: The Story of the Bradford Fire, in which the author challenges accepted theories as to the cause.
article_snippet.sent: Martin Fletcher has been researching the Bradford Fire for 15 years and believes the investigation’s findings are flawed.
article_snippet.sent: The inquiry asserted that the cause was, in all likelihood, down to a cigarette or a match dropped on to a pile of rubbish.
article_snippet.sent: The Story of the Bradford Fire – challenges accepted theories as to the cause of the Bradford Fire.
article_snippet.sent: but from everything I have been told there isn’t a jot of evidence to suggest the blaze was caused deliberately,’ Martin wrote.
article_snippet.sent: On the contrary, I remember the coroner telling me the coroner was obvious how the Bradford Fire had started.
article_snippet.sent: Detective Inspector Raymond Falconer actually identified a man who had dropped a lit cigarette that went down a hole in the stand and started the Bradford Fire.
article_snippet.sent: This corroborates what I was told at the time by the coroner.
article_snippet.sent: Detective Inspector Raymond Falconer said the coroner was believed the Bradford Fire had been started by a man, visiting this country from Australia, but Detective Inspector Raymond Falconer name was never revealed.
article_snippet.sent: As members of his own family were seated in the stand that day, and as it was due to be demolished anyway 48 hours later, it is unfathomable to think there could have been an act of arson.