Despite this, it was held that the owner of the factory was entitled to have it burned down as the Lord Chief Justice put it, " [ i ] t is not an offence for a man to set light to his own . . . property " and therefore Denton, knowing this, had a lawful excuse independent of section 5.
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Threatening to set light to ?0, 000 is pretty obscene . " Former Factory Records boss Tony Wilson applauded the group, however . " The K Foundation is a very peculiar avant garde group whose ideas are as valid anything the Turner people do, " he told " NME " . " Since when has there been laws governing what constitutes art, or an artistic statement?
