Jilted apprentice jailed for torching ex-lover's house
Tracy Clark and her father Stephen had to flee their home in Livingston, after Christopher McKay started a fire which caused 15,000 of damage.
Apprentice engineer McKay, 23, had been sending threatening texts to his on-off girlfriend for more than a fortnight before acting on them in the early hours of 23 January.
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Hide AdAfter downing 14 pints of strong lager, McKay went to Miss Clark's home to torch it in a bid to "get her attention."
At the High Court in Perth yesterday,
McKay, of Sutherland Way, Livingston, admitted sending menacing text messages
putting a wheelie bin against the door of Miss Clark's home and setting fire to it.