Breaking The scene in Southchurch Avenue where Jane Reilly and Alan Archer set fire to a man to try and kill him “ARROGANT AND EVIL” petrol attackers have been locked up for setting their friend on fire – and then harassed his girlfriend while ambulances arrived. Former couple Jane Reilly and Alan Archer were lambasted by Judge Samantha Leigh saying their behaviour “beggars’ belief” when they tried to kill the man in Southend. The duo filled up a five litre can of petrol at a BP garage on London Road in the middle of the night, before going to a house in Southchurch Avenue, Southend, dousing the man with the fuel and setting fire to him twice on October 30, 2019.