Husband ‘rigged device in bid to cause fatal fire’

A CHEATING husband tried to murder his wife by rigging their home with a homemade fire-starting device while he spent the night with his mistress, a court heard yesterday.

Ian Price, 30, attached a heat gun to an electrical socket and set a timer to switch it on in the middle of the night, causing a fire he hoped would kill Joanne Price, Birmingham Crown Court was told.

The incendiary device did spark a fire in the spare room of their home in the affluent village of Willoughton, near Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.