A Perth man has been charged with manslaughter in a bush fire that killed a 23-year-old man who had gone to a fire check while driving his four-wheeler with his friends.
Father Jack Kenin, of Heathridge, was killed on September 22 while driving on dirt tracks with a group of friends near Pinjar shortly after midnight.
Alan Adams, deputy commissioner of Western Australian Police, said the victim did not know the person who set the fire, and it was just a tragic coincidence that he went to check on him.
“As Jack was walking towards her, the gas cylinder exploded, he got shrapnel and he died,” he told 6PR Radio.
“The inquiries and information we received yesterday put the 38-year-old man in charge.
“What the police will claim is that the gas cylinder was set on fire.”
Kenin died on the scene despite the desperate attempts by his six friends to like him.
Police appealed to the public on Tuesday to identify two people seen in the area at the time of the fire.
The accused, from Banksia Grove, is scheduled to appear in the Joondalup Court of First Instance on Wednesday after his arrest on Tuesday.
Originally published at Melbourne News Vine
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