The fire gutted St Simon's RC church in the Partick area of Glasgow.
A man has admitted starting a huge fire which gutted a historic Glasgow church.
Soot-covered Haggerty was spotted nearby after the fire, when he told a group of people: "Don't grass me in." Haggerty, who lived in homeless accommodation nearby, had a long-standing drug addiction at the time, his lawyer saidShe managed to escape and was helped by fire crews, but collapsed at one stage on seeing the destruction caused.Prosecutor Eilidh Robertson told the court it took no more than 10 minutes from the time the blaze was ignited to it engulfing the building.A string of 999 calls were made around 02:30 that morning after the popular church - built in 1858 - was spotted alight.
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