AN ARSONIST who sent a house up in flames could spend more than three years behind bars.
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Nathan Bartman was sentenced in Tamworth District Court on Wednesday after he torched a home in Gunnedah just before dawn on August 2 last year.
According to court documents from the proceedings, Judge Deborah Payne sentenced Bartman to a total aggregate sentence of three years and nine months in prison.
Bartman has been in custody and Judge Payne ordered that his time behind bars begin in August 2020 and expire in May 2024.
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Bartman will be eligible for parole in early August next year.
He faced charges of damaging property worth more than $15,000 by fire or an explosive; destroy or damage property; contravening an AVO; and acting with the intent to influence a witness.
Bartman was arrested by detectives in Moree about a week after a fire ripped through the High Street home in Gunnedah and destroyed it.
Emergency services were alerted to a blaze in the early hours of August 2, 2020.
Gunnedah police and Oxley detectives launched an investigation into the exact cause of the fire.
It is understood no one was injured when the blaze broke out.
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Police and crime reporter at the Newcastle Herald. Email: afalkenmire@austcommunitymedia.com.au
Police and crime reporter at the Newcastle Herald. Email: afalkenmire@austcommunitymedia.com.au
