re: #248 Wishbone

This is probably because no one has a clue whether this is even a ‘crime’ or not. There was a fire, no doubt of that. Whether or not that fire came about in the way of most other spontaneous blazes, or by way of a carefully placed match is up to fire investigators to figure out. That arson is ‘suspected’ merely means that the bugger reporting the crime reported it as such; that’s how it works here.

That’s not correct. You must have missed this quote from the article:

Inspector Martin Peters said: “It appears an accelerant was used…”

The presence of an accelerant (probably gasoline or kerosene) makes arson highly probable.