'The pure madness of drugs' - Addict jailed for setting fire to stolen school bus in Youghal

A garda told the court that 'it was a pure random act'.

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin imposed a three-year sentence for the arson of the school bus and suspended the last year of that sentence. File photo

A school bus was stolen and set on fire for no apparent reason and now the man who committed the arson has been jailed for two years.

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin imposed the sentence on Rhys O’Connell who carried out the crime in Youghal but had an address at Mochua’s Terrace, Clashmore, County Waterford.