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Man arrested over threat to burn pub-goer's home

Google Google Street View image of the London Inn in Ottery St Mary. It is a white brick building with a red car outside on the road. It has several sash windows with black frames. It has a black/grey tiled roof.Google
Police said the incident happened in the London Inn's beer garden in Ottery St Mary

A man has been arrested on suspicion of making threats to burn another man's house down and holding a glass to their face in a pub beer garden.

The incident took place just after 12:00 BST on Wednesday in the garden of the London Inn, in Ottery St Mary.

It was reported a man approached another man and made threats towards him, Devon and Cornwall Police said.

The force said a local man in his 20s was arrested on suspicion of using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour to cause harassment, alarm or distress, and threatening to damage or destroy a property. He has been released on bail.

Anyone with information about the incident has been asked to contact the force.

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