Man charged with arson after Birmingham supermarket fire

In the quiet hours before Birmingham woke, a fire at a Corporation Street supermarket drew police to the scene and to a man still within its walls. Bashar Alnajar, twenty-five and of no fixed address, was arrested before he could slip away — a swift response that transformed what might have been an unsolved act of destruction into a matter now before the courts. Charged with both arson and burglary, he stands at the beginning of a legal process that will weigh the gravity of fire as a weapon against property and, potentially, human life.