Police had to drag him out of the house as he shouted: “I didn’t mean to harm anybody. I’d had enough.”
Later that evening, he sent his daughter a text message with passwords to his accounts and made references to “ending it all” and burning the house.He then set fire to a bin bag next to the chair he was sitting on in the living room.
The defendant’s daughter, who lives in Blackpool, had been alerted to what was going on by Wharrier’s nephew and called the emergency services.When police arrived they saw the living room light up orange. Wharrier had started another fire, this time setting a cardboard box alight. Prosecuting, Bashir Ahmed said Wharrier’s son and nephew had been left feeling “unsafe in their own home” after the ordeal.
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