The fire at the King George V water tower on Dundee docks in February 2017
A firebug who caused £550,000 worth of damage at Dundee’s docks after deliberately setting a water tower ablaze has avoided jail.
Dean Yeats, 25, has been placed under supervision for two years and ordered to comply with compulsory mental health, drug and alcohol treatment.
Sheriff Alastair Carmichael stressed that if he does not comply with the conditions there would be a “high chance” of a custodial sentence.
Yeats told onlookers “it was me – I didn’t mean it” after an inferno swept across the King George V pumping station at Dundee docks in February this year.
The Forfar man pleaded guilty on indictment to a charge of culpable and reckless fireraising at Dundee Sheriff Court in October.
He was sentenced at Dundee Sheriff Court on Friday morning.
