Man sentenced for fire murder bid

The court heard Nolan will be monitored for four years

A man who attempted to murder three people, including a 13-year-old boy, by starting a fire at a flat has been jailed for six years.

Thomas Nolan, 36, from Calton, Glasgow, admitted attempted murder in Dalmarnock on 2 July by pouring accelerant on a mat and setting fire to a house.

Sentencing, at the High Court in Edinburgh, judge Lord Turnbull described the offence as "despicable".

Nolan will be kept under supervision for four years on his release.

Lord Turnbull said: "It was only good fortune the fire was quickly detected and extinguished.

"You were prepared with wicked recklessness to set fire to a house within which were three entirely innocent individuals."

A man, a woman and a teenage boy were in the flat when the fire was started. They were not injured.

The court heard that when he started the fire Nolan had been seeking an address for someone else "in order to take a matter into his own hands".