Man who set fire to detective's house jailed for eight years

A man who set fire to the house of a detective who was involved in charging him with murder 20 years ago has been jailed for eight years.

Richard Bourke, who was ultimately acquitted of the murder charge, was “off his face” on alcohol and drugs when he lit a small flame at the front door of Detective Garda John Griffin's house in Finglas before returning to throw petrol on it in February this year, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court was told.