Children escaped after man set fire to apartment

A man has been sentenced to five years for setting fire to the bed in his partner and children’s apartment before escaping out the window.

Paul Hanbury, aged 23, from Cloonmore Park in Tallaght, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to arson in the apartment in Tallaght on October 4, 2014.

Judge Martin Nolan said that “it was an extremely serious crime and fatalities could have occurred by Mr Hanbury’s reckless and intentional actions”.