Two teenagers are to stand trial on charges of setting fire to a derelict listed former hospital and “totally destroying” everything inside.
Liam Burns and Aarron Beveridge are accused of torching Strathmartine Hospital, by Dundee, on June 1 2013.
It is alleged the pair set fire to waste material and “other unknown items” within a derelict building in a secure compound at the former hospital.
Prosecutors say the fire took effect and totally destroyed all items stored within beyond repair and caused extensive damage to the building.
Burns, 18, of Ballantrae Terrace, Dundee, and Beveridge, 19, of Teviotdale Avenue, Dundee, pleaded not guilty on indictment to a charge of wilful fireraising.
Sheriff Pino di Emidiot set a trial date in April.
