Court gives man eight years for Cork arson

An eight-year jail sentence was imposed today on the man who caused €2.7m worth of fire damage in Skibbereen, County Cork, last April.

"There was no premeditation, the offence was random, he was out of control on the day, possibly because he was drunk," Judge Con Murphy said at Cork Circuit Criminal Court as he sentenced Vladimir Raspapov, 35, of Room 684, North Quay Place, Pope’s Quay, Cork, to concurrent eight-year sentences on five counts of arson in Skibbereen, Co Cork, on April 9 2006.