Chris Packham, 60, was alone in the house when a Land Rover was turned into an inferno and exploded shortly after. Balaclava-clad thugs drove the vehicle to the BBC Springwatch presenter’s remote country home and set fire to it before fleeing in a getaway car just after midnight on Friday.Speaking The Mirror, the anti-hunting campaigner said: “I’d gone to bed and absolutely crashed out, literally crashed out, zonked.“The gate isn’t visible from the bedroom but of course when it exploded, it went off with a massive bang which woke me and the dogs up.“It was an inferno.The neighbours called the fire brigade and they turned up and put it out.The police turned up a bit later."The explosion set fire to the gate and fence of his property in.
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