TWO teenagers will face court today after being charged with serious offences including arson causing death for a fatal fire allegedly lit on Black Saturday.
The two boys, 14 and 15, were arrested by Taskforce Phoenix detectives at 9am today.
Police said the pair have been charged with arson causing death, deliberately lighting a bushfire, lighting fire on total fire ban day and lighting fire in a country area during extreme weather conditions.
Further, the pair were charged with multiple counts of using telecommunications service to menace, harass and offend and 135 counts each of criminal damage by fire (arson).
Police said a 47-year-old Long Gully man was killed and 354 hectares of land, 61 houses and 125 sheds and outbuildings were destroyed in the Maiden Gully fire, near Bendigo, on February 7 last year.
The youths are expected to appear before a Children's Court later today.
Email a friend