Addict threatened to set man alight

A chronic drug addict who doused a filling station assistant with petrol and threatened to set him alight, before robbing money from the shop and getting away in a stolen car, has been remanded in custody for sentence on June 15.

The 31-year-old man, who had committed various robberies, some at gunpoint and some at knife-point, in the preceding days had been diagnosed with AIDS not long before he committed the robbery at Maxol filling station on Harold’s Road on January 1, 2003.