A woman who set her then boyfriend’s clothes alight, sparking a fire that damaged an apartment complex, has been ordered to pay more than $40 000 in compensation.

Kimberly Shantelle Brathwaite of Moncrieffe, Station Hill, St Philip, was sentenced in the No. 5A Supreme Court before Justice Christopher Birch after confessing during a previous session of the Continuous Sittings that on September 15, 2018, she unlawfully damaged a Fairholme Gardens building belonging to Linda Drakes by fire.

Finding a starting point of six years to be appropriate when considering the facts of the case, Justice Birch said: “While the culpability of the convicted woman is on the lower end, the results of her actions resulted in serious loss and damage to the owner and other occupants of the property.