Jail for teen who set fire to cars in Dublin apartment block, causing €700k worth of damage

The judge said he thought Alex Kane was “well capable of reforming” and having read a number of reports accepted that things had happened to him “that should not have”.

A teenager who set fire to a number of cars in the underground carpark of an apartment complex causing more than €700,000 worth of damage and forcing residents out of their homes has been jailed.

Alex Kane (22) was 17 years old when he went on a “spree of destruction” first vandalizing and setting fires in an unoccupied building site, then attempting to set fire to two cars in the underground carpark of an apartment block before setting fires in another underground car park in a second apartment block.