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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National

Lake Mac firebug sentenced for torching cars, mattresses, garbage

Windale man Chad Joseph Musgrave set fire to four cars and ignited several mounds of garbage left out for kerbside collection at Lake Macquarie in late 2019. File picture

Convicted firebug Chad Joseph Musgrave has been sentenced to a three-year jail term for setting fire to four cars as well as several mounds of rubbish left out for kerbside collection at Lake Macquarie in 2019.

A backdated non-parole period that Magistrate John Chicken handed down yesterday as part of the punishment meant that the 36-year-old would have been immediately eligible for release - but for separate serious drug supply charges making their way through the courts, which have kept him behind bars since early this year.

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