One of the cars burnt out at the vigil for A66 crash victim Michael Cahill was believed to be an £80,000 Porsche Cayenne, it is believed.
Police have been scrambled to multiple incidents across Teesside as escalating violence linked to criminal gangs following the crash on Saturday, August 22, threatens to spiral out of control.
The turf war has claimed nine lives in five days following the deaths of seven people, including two police officers, in the collision between a marked police vehicle and a Volkswagen Passat near Middlesbrough.
Footage shared online shows a number of cars on fire in a field as balloons were released at a memorial event for one of the five men Michael Robert Cahill, 23, in the Passat. It appears the cars - including the high-performance Porsche - were set ablaze as part of the event.
On Wednesday, Valentina Foster, 7, and her aunt Natalie McDonald, 34, were tragically killed in a house fire in Grangetown, Teesside. Two men have since been arrested on suspicion of murder.
