2025-07-01
Serial arsonist gets seven years for blaze at home he also damaged 23 years ago
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: He said Flynn set fire to the house in an act of "misplaced vengeance towards the house". "The problem with fire is once it's started, no one knows where it ends up," the judge said. "People could have died on this particular night." Judge Nolan set a headline sentence of 10 to 12 years and then reduced it to seven years, taking into account the fact that Flynn's pleas were signed guilty pleas from the District Court.