That bounder Brockett is a total cad. It would be funny in an Ealing comedy starring Terry Thomas, but torching rare cars for the insurance in real life is a shits trick. He should be blackballed, and not just from his Club.
Bad news tho H, the swine is out of clink and swanning around as if nothing had happenned. He was on TV recently, giving it the old humility bit, prison changed his life etc. Happily he is virtually penniless, his awful money grabbing wife having grabbed what was left and run of with another chap, who is likely to be another absolute rotter. Hurrah!
I wondered also how a modern building can go up so fast. Did they not have sprinklers, alarms etc. You are right tho, something smells of a very large and pongy rat. But really it cannot be Roy Richards, the museums founder. He is an honest, guiless Brummy, with a huge and genuine love of the British motorcycle industry (as was). If you know Brum, you will know what I mean, there are a lot of people like this in Brum, genuine salt of the earth types. So I cannot believe him capable of even contemplating torching it.
Maybe it was the night watchman with a grudge or a rival museum owner with an axe to grind.
