2021-01-29
€400k up in smoke after Louis Copeland store set ablaze by addict
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Handing down sentence, Judge Martin Nolan accepted that Pilibaitis had not intentionally set fire to the shop, but had done so "by his reckless behaviour". "He could have been incinerated or smothered by smoke," the judge said. He will be sentenced for that offence on February 12.