This is the moment a man who set fire to the family home in Hambleton was arrested

Darren Davies was arrested after he poured petrol around the bungalow and also had a gas bottle inside the property.

The resulting explosion saw the bungalow in Carr Lane, Hambleton, engulfed in flames, with glass and debris strewn across the road outside.

Thick black smoke could be seen from some distance away, and the force of the explosion meant that only one wall of the bungalow was left standing.

Davies was in the property when it exploded around 9.50am on March 27 but escaped with minor injuries.

He told paramedics treating him and the chief fire officer who attended, that his intention had been to kill himself and ‘take the house with him’.

Davies had become paranoid that family members wanted to take the bungalow off him, the property having been left to him and his brother by their father.

One witness who was driving on Carr Lane when the explosion happened, saw Davies walk from the bungalow wearing pyjama bottoms and an orange hooded top.

Davies spoke to the witness and made the comment: “My family want the house, if I can’t have it no one can.”

His brother, who he lived with, was at work when Davies caused the explosion. He received a WhatsApp message from a friend who worked near to the bungalow, requesting he phoned him.