The 42-year old man that set light to the main doors of the Bora Bora café-pub in Salobreña was found guilty and has received a 5-year sentence.

The sentence relates how R.M.B. returned to the said establishment at 04.15 (after having been ejected earlier) on the Sunday morning of the 2nd of December, 2009, carrying a container of gasoline, and then proceeded to pour it over the doors and set light to it with customers and staff still inside.

The owner saw the glow of the fire through gap under the doors and took a fire extinguisher to the blaze, aided by two friends. The damage caused by the fire amounted to some 1,200 euros, which the bar owner has not demanded in compensation as it was covered by the insurance.

The Public Prosecutor had recommended a sentence of 14 years imprisonment, but the judge settled on the before-mentioned sentence as nobody had been injured and the damage was limited to the entrance door.

The Defence Lawyer, on the other hand, had recommended that his client be acquitted as he was completely pissed out of his tree, so to speak. The judge, however, did not accept this recommendation, as in his opinion, to be able to plan the attack: returning for a bottle, filling it with gasoline from parked mopeds and scooters and returning to the pub, required a certain amount of reasoning and mental-bodily co-ordination.

(News: Salobrena, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)