Australian jailed for torching home over lunch snub: report
Mon, Jul 27, 2009
AFP
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - An Australian court has jailed a man who set fire to his own house in a fit of anger after his wife failed to make him lunch, a report said on Monday.
Rajah Theivendradas, 54, was jailed for four years over the incident in which he poured petrol on a staircase and set it alight, AAP news agency reported.
His wife and daughters, aged 21 and 16, suffered superficial burns as they escaped through the flames, the report said.
'It was an inexcusable, senseless, destructive and dangerous criminal act on your part,' Victorian County Court Judge John Nixon was quoted as saying.
The court heard Theivendradas had been drinking heavily the day before the incident in May last year and had also had a heated row with one of his daughters.
Mon, Jul 27, 2009
AFP
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - An Australian court has jailed a man who set fire to his own house in a fit of anger after his wife failed to make him lunch, a report said on Monday.
Rajah Theivendradas, 54, was jailed for four years over the incident in which he poured petrol on a staircase and set it alight, AAP news agency reported.
His wife and daughters, aged 21 and 16, suffered superficial burns as they escaped through the flames, the report said.
'It was an inexcusable, senseless, destructive and dangerous criminal act on your part,' Victorian County Court Judge John Nixon was quoted as saying.
The court heard Theivendradas had been drinking heavily the day before the incident in May last year and had also had a heated row with one of his daughters.
