A former restaurant supervisor who torched and destroyed his lover's home has been jailed for almost six years. Dean MacTaggart sparked the blaze forcing Amanda Richards, 43, and a young child to leap from a first floor window to safety.
The 31-year-old struck after Amanda felt he had been "insensitive" about her late mother. MacTaggart was locked up for five years and eight months at the High Court in Glasgow.
He had earlier pled guilty to attempting to murder Amanda and the child following the blaze at the property on Islay in the Inner Hebrides in September 2021. Lord Beckett told him: "This was an extremely serious crime.
