Fire raiser who caused Inverness flats to be evacuated is jailed
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A woman who set her flat on fire following a relationship break-up has been jailed for 18 months.
The incident happened on August 22, 2022 in a block of eight residences in Glendoe Terrace, Inverness after Jade Vint (25) had been drinking with neighbours.
Inverness Sheriff Court heard police were called to the scene as well as firefighters who extinguished the early morning blaze which started in the hallway of the local authority property.
Sheriff Ian Cruickshank was told that Vint was found sitting on a chair outside the property and immediately confessed to police she had used white spirit to ignite the fire because her boyfriend had split up with her.
She admitted a charge of wilful fire raising.
Vint also pleaded guilty to allowing the property to be used for the supply of drugs.
Sheriff Cruickshank was told that police obtained a search warrant and found cocaine with a street value of £230 in the August 7, 2021 raid.
Vint told officers then that she was not at home when deals took place as she would leave.
Vint, now of Myrtletown Park, Inverness, admitted a third offence of breaking into the Co-op in Telford Street, Inverness on September 27, 2022 and stealing a quantity of alcohol.
Her solicitor advocate Shahid Latif presented the court with a letter from his client which he said "eloquently sets out the initial journey of self destruction she was on".
He could not add anything more in mitigation he said.
Sheriff Cruickshank said he recognised that Vint had been in custody since July 27 and that the letter "gives detailed mitigation in relation to the turmoil that existed in your life at the time."
He backdated her sentence to begin from her initial date of remand.
