Article: Arsonist sent to psychiatric unit for city 'grudge attack' ; Arsonist Andrew Wright has been ordered to stay in a psychiatric unit after causing pounds9,000 of damage in a grudge attack upon his landlady's Exeter home.

Arsonist Andrew Wright has been ordered to stay in a psychiatric unit after causing pounds9,000 of damage in a grudge attack upon his landlady's Exeter home.

Wright, 42, set light to a mattress and propped it against the wall of his bedroom, after Jacqueline Tonks gave him notice to quit her house in Clayton Road, St David's.

He was given an 18-month community order and three years of supervision, including a condition to continue living at Langdon Hospital, Dawlish, at Exeter Crown Court yesterday.

During a trial earlier this year, a jury acquitted Wright of arson with intent to endanger life but found him guilty of arson being reckless as to whether life was endangered.

Wright, 42, whose ...

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