Cowardly pair killed grandad after setting wrong house on fire in botched 'revenge attack' on rival
manchestereveningnews.co.ukTwo men have been jailed after killing an elderly man whose home they mistakenly set on fire in a "revenge attack". George Redmond, 76, died after Fraser Dolman and Wayne Hepburn torched his home while he and his wife slept.
The "cowardly" pair had plotted to set fire to the front door of a rival but ended up targeting the "wrong property". They instead set fire to the home of Mr Redmond and his wife Mary, the Liverpool ECHO reports.
As the couple attempted to escape the flames, Mr Redmond fell and died in hospital just over two weeks later. Join our WhatsAp p Top Stories and Breaking News group by clicking this link. Hepburn, who travelled to the scene in a stolen Audi TT, even managed to engulf himself in flames as he sparked the blaze.
The 47-year-old, from Salford, refused to appear in the dock for sentencing at Liverpool Crown Court today (Friday). The court heard that Mrs Redmond was woken at around 3am on September 1 of last year by her husband, a grandfather-of-six, shouting: "Mary, get up.
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