A SCHOOLBOY who doused one of his cousins with gasolene and then set him ablaze has been put on probation for three years.
He is to have two years of police supervision after the probation period has ended.
The 15-year-old pleaded guilty to inflicting grievous bodily harm when he appeared in the Home Circuit Court last month.
A social report enquiry was ordered and sentencing was put off until last week.
The facts of the case, as outlined to Justice Raymond King, were that on May 1, 2003 the accused threw gasolene on his 14-year-old cousin and set him on fire.
SEVERELY BURNT
The complainant was severely burnt to the lower section of his body. He spent one year at the Bustamante Hospital for Children and is still unable to walk properly.
The complainant reported to the police that he had to throw himself into a gully of water in order to put out the blaze. He was unconscious in hospital for several days.
When the accused was arrested and charged, he told Constable Pierre Roberts that, when he threw the gasolene, he did not know it would have caught the complainant.
