An Edinburgh arsonist who started a £20,000 blaze at an East Lothian university which threatened to spread to cylinders of explosive butane gas has dodged jail.
Jonathan Brown set light to a storage area at Queen Margaret University after getting off a bus at its campus in Musselburgh, East Lothian.
Edinburgh Sheriff Court heard there were 18 cylinders of butane, carbon dioxide and helium nearby, some of which could have exploded if exposed to severe heat, the Daily Record reports.
