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"Nice one judge!" Teen arsonist is spared jail for burning down a home for excluded schoolkids

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Sign up to the MySalford newsletter and don't miss a thing happening in and around the city A teenage arsonist from a troubled background burned down a school for children who have been excluded from mainstream education.

Jack Dwyer, then aged 16, told his teacher 'I will burn this place down so I don't have to come here' before torching Clifton Green Hub in Swinton.

He tampered with an inlet pipe to the gas meter in a games room, causing a leak of gas, and then started a huge fire which caused damage worth £16,000 and forced the closure of the facility following the devastating arson in March 2018.

But a judge spared him a jail sentence after hearing about his troubled background and that his mother was in prison at the time of the attack.

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