Although no one was injured in the murder bid, the sentencing judge made reference to the Grenfell Tower tragedy of June 2017, in which 72 people died after a blaze tore through the 24-storey block of flats in London.
A courier who tried to kill a young boy and a man by setting a fire outside their door within a high-rise block of flats has been jailed for six years. Craig McQuillian, 44, was captured on camera starting the petrol blaze on the 10th floor of the 14-storey tenement in Edinburgh. A court heard a youngster inside the flat smelled burning while in bed and raised the alarm by shouting 'fire'.
McQuillian, who worked as a courier delivering organs for the NHS, was captured on CCTV entering the block of flats with a metal crowbar and a plastic carrier bag which held a container filled with petrol. After setting fire to the accelerant poured outside the flat door, McQuillian was then seen fleeing the scene. A neighbour, whose doorbell camera recorded the attack, called 999 when they were alerted to the incident via a notification through an app on their phone.
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