Man found guilty of killing jockeys in arson attack

A labourer was found guilty today of killing two young jockeys by setting light to a block of flats in a drunken revenge attack.

Peter Brown, 37, started a fire at Buckrose Court in Norton, North Yorkshire, which killed Jamie Kyne, 18, from Kiltrogue, Co Galway,, and Jan Wilson, 19, from Forfar, Scotland.

A jury at Leeds Crown Court heard drunken Brown, who is originally from the Aberdeen area of Scotland, torched the complex as an act of revenge after he was refused entry to a party in one of the flats last September.

Today he was cleared by the jury of murder but found guilty of manslaughter.