A CAR was doused with petrol before being torched in Holmfirth.

Fire crews and police were alerted in the early hours of Sunday morning when the car, a Citroen C1, was deliberately set alight in Moorbrook Mill Drive in the New Mill area of Holmfirth.

A Kirklees police spokesman said: “The front passenger window of the car was smashed and accelerants poured inside before the vehicle was set on fire.

“The car was destroyed in the fire.”

Police are treating the incident as arson and want to speak to anyone with information. Contact Huddersfield CID via 101, or Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.