The new owners of Britain’s wonkiest pub face questions by police after it burnt down and was then demolished without permission within weeks of them buying it.
Carly Taylor, 34, and her husband Adam, 44, will be contacted by officers investigating the destruction of The Crooked House in Himley, Staffordshire, in a fire on Saturday.
The 19th-century pub, which had become a local landmark for its 16-degree tilt caused by subsidence, is now a pile of rubble after a digger pulled it down on Monday evening.
Staffordshire police said that they would be “speaking to the owners” in a joint investigation that also involved the fire service and South Staffordshire district council, which described the demolition as “completely unacceptable”.
Roger Lees, leader of South Staffordshire