fire-raiser

A warped fire-raiser caught torching his own sister's house has been caged for two years - and will be watched closely for one year on his release.

Jailing the fire-raiser yesterday, Judge Kirstie Montgomery told him: "I have been trying to understand what you intended by the fire.

He accepted that she was not mentally ill or a fire-raiser and did not meet the criteria for dangerousness.

A FIRE-RAISER torched his former home after suffering a campaign of revenge attacks.

'There would have been extreme danger to numerous people if the fire had caught hold,' Judge Christopher Llewellyn-Jones QC told the already convicted fire-raiser.

A BABY-FACED fire-raiser aged just 13 was branded a danger to the public last night.

A fire-raiser has been deliberately setting light to grassland and verges in parts of Worcestershire.

Whereas in chapter 6, the author uses Wooden and Berkey's (1984) four-part classification of offenders to sort child fire-raisers: curiosity leading to fire; `cry for help' fire raisers motivated by anger at adverse home environments, with feelings of rejection and/or neglect; older youngsters engaging in arson as part of juvenile delinquency generally; and the pathological juvenile fire-raiser who sets fires repetitively.

POLICE are appealing for help to find a fire-raiser who set a students' flat ablaze.

A COUPLE whose hotel was burned down by a fire-raiser have launched a legal fight against the local authority that asked them to house her.

But now the fire-raiser is bidding to overturn his conviction.