Lord jailed for setting fire to curtain
An English Lord, a member of the upper house of the English Parliament, has been sentenced to 16 months in jail for deliberately setting fire to a curtain in a hotel after a boozy night out in Edinburgh.
According to Reuters, Labour peer Mike Watson pleaded guilty to starting the blaze in the early hours of November 12 last year following a ceremony in the Scottish capital to celebrate the Scottish Politician of the Year awards.
During his trial, the court was shown closed circuit television footage of a figure dressed in a kilt, crouching at the base of the curtain which moments later burst into flames.
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