Jilted apprentice jailed for torching ex-lover's house

A JILTED boyfriend who bombarded his ex-lover with death threat texts before torching her home while she cowered inside has been jailed for three and a half years.

Tracy Clark and her father Stephen had to flee their home in Livingston, after Christopher McKay started a fire which caused 15,000 of damage.

Apprentice engineer McKay, 23, had been sending threatening texts to his on-off girlfriend for more than a fortnight before acting on them in the early hours of 23 January.

After downing 14 pints of strong lager, McKay went to Miss Clark's home to torch it in a bid to "get her attention."

At the High Court in Perth yesterday,

McKay, of Sutherland Way, Livingston, admitted sending menacing text messages

putting a wheelie bin against the door of Miss Clark's home and setting fire to it.