A man whose cannabis cultivation started a fire in his top-floor flat has avoided a jail sentence.
Thomas Watson, 59, previously admitted producing the Class B drug and culpably and recklessly leaving a heated lamp switched on and unattended, causing a fire to break out in his flat on Elba Street in Ayr.
Ayr Sheriff Court heard last month that Watson refused entry to firefighters on January 26 last year when they requested to check his flat over following reports from a downstairs neighbour of the smelling of smoke.
