Groom set fire to wedding venue in row over drink bill

Arsonist bridegroom Max Kay said he was “out of control” and “mashed up” when he decided to set fire to the hotel where he had just got married.

Witnesses said Kay, a property developer and father of four, had drunk around 20 double vodkas over the course of his wedding celebrations and had been making sinister threats at the owners of Peckforton Castle after they fell out over money.

In a chilling promise, he told a hotel barman shortly before setting the fire that “nobody crosses Max” and threatened to “smash the owner’s teeth in”.