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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.
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- Express & Echo (Exeter UK)
- Article date:
- August 14, 2008
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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 ...