This is South Wales -- A TEENAGER from Bridgend has been sent to a young offenders institute for three years for turning a can of hairspray into a makeshift flamethrower to take revenge on a girl who taunted him.
Michael Price, 18, put a match to a highly-flammable hairspray to light six separate fires inside the girl's flat.
Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court heard he was furious after the girl, 17, called him a rapist.
Price, of Bridgend, waited for the girl to leave her home - then broke in and set fire to her clothes and curtains using her own hairspray.
Prosecutor Rachel Knight said: "Price had been drinking and taking meow meow when an argument broke out between him and the teenage girl.
"She made false claims against him - saying he was a rapist.
"He went to the girl's flat when it was empty and in a fit of pique he decided to set fire to it.
"He used the girl's own hairspray to set light to the curtains and to her clothes which he had piled up in the middle of the floor."
People living in the neighbouring flats in Mountain Ash escaped the middle-of-the-night blaze in October last year.
Price was arrested and told police: "It was me. I set it on fire because she called me a rapist."
Unemployed Price, of Tremains Road, Bridgend, was jailed for three-and-a-half years after admitting arson being reckless as to whether life was endangered.
Judge Dan Williams told him: "This was revenge. You systematically set about setting fire to the flat, setting fire to every pair of curtains and ran around the flat with the hairspray.
"It shows you were going to take revenge because of what she had said about you regardless of the possible consequences." Reported by This is 15 hours ago.
Michael Price, 18, put a match to a highly-flammable hairspray to light six separate fires inside the girl's flat.
Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court heard he was furious after the girl, 17, called him a rapist.
Price, of Bridgend, waited for the girl to leave her home - then broke in and set fire to her clothes and curtains using her own hairspray.
Prosecutor Rachel Knight said: "Price had been drinking and taking meow meow when an argument broke out between him and the teenage girl.
"She made false claims against him - saying he was a rapist.
"He went to the girl's flat when it was empty and in a fit of pique he decided to set fire to it.
"He used the girl's own hairspray to set light to the curtains and to her clothes which he had piled up in the middle of the floor."
People living in the neighbouring flats in Mountain Ash escaped the middle-of-the-night blaze in October last year.
Price was arrested and told police: "It was me. I set it on fire because she called me a rapist."
Unemployed Price, of Tremains Road, Bridgend, was jailed for three-and-a-half years after admitting arson being reckless as to whether life was endangered.
Judge Dan Williams told him: "This was revenge. You systematically set about setting fire to the flat, setting fire to every pair of curtains and ran around the flat with the hairspray.
"It shows you were going to take revenge because of what she had said about you regardless of the possible consequences." Reported by This is 15 hours ago.