Hospital fire teenagers sentenced

The former hospital was being converted into flats (Pic by Jimmy Addison)

Two teenagers who started a fire said to have caused £5m of damage to a former psychiatric hospital in Inverness have been detained.

Noel Sutherland and Stephen Coffey, both 19, admitted the offence, at Craig Dunain, last September.

At Inverness Sheriff Court, Sutherland was sentenced to one year and Coffey eight months, in a young offenders institution.

A third person involved, Billy Hunter, 18, was given community service.

He was ordered to complete 200 hours.

The court earlier heard how it took 45 firefighters 12 hours to put out the blaze at the Victorian building.

The B-listed building, in the Leachkin area of the city, was in the early stages of being renovated into luxury flats when it was set alight on 15 September 2007.