by Anna White

awhite@thekmgroup.co.uk

Two arsonists are set to be sentenced today for a string of fires in rural Maidstone.

Neil Clark and Marc Hitchcock, both from Shepway, admitted conspiracy to commit arson, at five different businesses, including the office of Hugh Robertson, MP for Faversham and Mid Kent.

The duo left spray painted numbers at each of their crimes.

Clark, a married father-of-four, also admitted threatening to destroy or damage the Kent Messenger offices, in Middle Row, Maidstone.

They will be sentenced at Maidstone Crown Court.

Clark's former girlfriend, Kim Trowell, of Willington Street, Maidstone, will also be sentenced today for perveting the course of justice.

She admitted trying to blame someone else for the fires.