A labourer was found guilty today of killing two young jockeys – including an Irish teenager - by setting light to a block of flats in Yorkshirte in a drunken revenge attack.
Peter Brown (37), started a fire at Buckrose Court in Norton, North Yorkshire, which killed Jamie Kyne (18), from Kiltrogue, Co Galway, and Jan Wilson (19), from Forfar, Scotland.
A jury at Leeds Crown Court heard drunken Brown, who is originally from the Aberdeen area of Scotland, torched the complex as an act of revenge after he was refused entry to a party in one of the flats last September.
Today he was cleared by the jury of murder but found guilty of manslaughter.
Brown was also aquitted of arson with intent to endanger life.
The jury of six men and six women took 13 hours to reach their verdicts.
Mrs Justice Nicola Davies adjourned sentence for the completion of a pre-sentence. She thanked the jury and the victim’s relatives, telling the families of the two jockeys. “You have attended every day, my thanks to you for the dignity you have shown," she said.