ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact

Police in the nation’s bottom-drawer state has finally caught up with the man responsible for lighting a number of fires up and down the eastern seaboard this season.

Dry Lightning, 25, was arrested earlier today by detectives and uniformed police officers in Sale, in eastern Victora, ending a month-long manhunt.

Mr Lightning, who has no fixed address, has been charged with a string of arson-related charges plus a number of charges relating to damage and destruction brought on by the fires.

Police have not ruled out charging Lightning with additional charges relating to the tragic deaths to stem from Mr Lightning’s original charges.

He was refused bail at Sale Magistrates’ Court and was remanded in custody.

More to come.

