Man who admitted throwing unlit petrol bomb into home of sleeping couple avoids jail
18 December, 2020 14:50
A CO Down man has narrowly avoided being jailed after he admitted throwing an unlit petrol bomb into the home of a sleeping couple.
Suspending a two year sentence for three years, Judge Geoffrey Miller QC told Johnathan Neal Martinez that he "shuddered to think what would have happened if the petrol bomb had ignited burning embers'' in a fire grate.
Former soldier Martinez (43), of Princetown Road in Bangor, pleaded guilty to a single count of throwing a petrol bomb. A second charge of making a petrol bomb was left on the books and "not to be proceeded with without the leave of the Crown Court or the Court of Appeal''.