JILTED AND IGNORED BY THE MAN SHE LOVED, GLAMOROU

JILTED AND IGNORED BY THE MAN SHE LOVED, GLAMOROUS FILM-EXTRA

AND SINGER SALLY ANN BREMNER SAT CRYING ON HIS DOOR-STEP WHILE HE

CELEBRATED HIS BIRTHDAY WITH ANOTHER.

BUT MOMENTS LATER HER BOYFRIENDS TOP-FLOOR FLAT WAS ENGULFED IN

FLAMES AND OTHER TENANTS IN THE HOUSE WERE FORCED TO FLEE THE BLAZE,

ISLEWORTH CROWN COURT HEARD.

MISS BREMNER, AN ATTRACTIVE 23 YEAR OLD BRUNETTE, OF BLOCKLEY

ROAD, NORTH WEMBLEY, WAS ARRESTED SOON AFTER.

BUT SHE DENIED

DELIBERATELY STARTING THE FIRE AT THE HOUSE IN HAVEN GREEN, EALING

ON APRIL 20 THIS YEAR.

OVER #25,000 WORTH OF DAMAGE WAS CAUSED TO IAN CUNNINGHAM, HER

FORMER BOYFRIENDS, FLAT.

WHEN QUESTIONED BREMNER SUGGESTED IT MAY HAVE BEEN STARTED BY ONE

OF THE CIGARETTES SHE STUBBED OUT ON THE CARPET.

THE COURT HEARD THAT THE COUPLE HAD PARTED COMPANY IN OCTOBER

LAST YEAR.

‘IT WAS NOT A HAPPY PARTING’, SAID MR MICHAEL WOOD,

PROSECUTING.

‘THERE WERE ATTEMPTED RECONCILIATIONS BUT MATTERS

CULMINATED IN THE EARLY HOURS OF APRIL 20 WHEN THIS DEFENDANT

DELIBERATELY STARTED A FIRE AT THE ENTRANCE TO HER BOYFRIEND’S FLAT.

‘IT WAS AN EXTREMELY SERIOUS FIRE AT A TIME WHEN PEOPLE WERE

ASLEEP IN THE HOUSE, BUT NOBODY WAS INJURED’, ADDED COUNSEL.

FORENSIC EVIDENCE SHOWED IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE CARPET TO
IGNITE FROM A STUBBED OUT CIGARETTE.

‘THE ONLY FLAME WHICH COULD

IGNITE THAT CARPET WAS A NAKED FLAME’, SAID MR WOOD.

‘THE FIRE BEGAN NOT ON THE OUTSIDE, BUT BEHIND THE DOOR BY

INSERTING A NAKED FLAME UNDER THE GAP AT THE BOTTOM OF THE DOOR’.

AND MISS BREMNER HAD A LIGHTER WITH HER, HE ADDED.

IN EVIDENCE MR CUNNINGHAM AGREED HE HAD CONTINUED TO SEE MISS

BREMNER AFTER THEY SPLIT UP AND THAT THEY OCCASIONALLY HAD SEX.

HE ALSO KNEW SHE BECAME PREGNANT AND HAD AN ABORTION IN

FEBRUARY.

MISS BREMNER TOLD THE COURT SHE SLEPT WITH MR CUNNINGHAM ON
HER RETURN FROM A HOLIDAY IN MARCH AND DISCOVERED AFTER HER ARREST,
SHE WAS PREGNANT AGAIN.

THAT PREGNANCY WAS ALSO TERMINATED.

AFTER SPENDING THE EVENING DRINKING WITH FRIENDS BREMNER WENT

TO HER EX BOYFRIENDS HOME.

‘HE SAID HE WOULD BE.

HE SAID HE WOULD BE HAVING A FEW FRIENDS
ROUND FOR A DRINK FOR HIS BIRTHDAY,’ SHE SAID.

‘BUT WHEN I GOT THERE, THERE WERE NO LIGHTS AT HIS FLAT AND I

HEARD MUSIC DOWN THE ROAD,’ SHE CONTINUED.

‘I WENT THERE BUT I DON’T

REMEMBER MUCH.

I DIDN’T SEE HIM.

‘
SHE TOLD THE COURT THAT SHE RETURNED TO HIS FLAT BELIEVING

HER WAS THERE.

‘I WENT TO HIS FRONT DOOR.

I WAS BANGING ON IT.

I

WAS SITTING ON THE BOTTOM STEP AND I WAS SMOKING.

I WAS DRUNK AND I

DON’T REMEMBER MUCH,’ SHE CONTINUED.

‘I WENT AND TELEPHONED HIM BUT DIDN’T GET ANY ANSWER.

THEN I
WENT BACK AND THERE WERE FLAMES AT THE DOOR.

I WENT TO GET A BUCKET
OF WATER.

I THOUGHT IAN WAS IN THERE.

I PULLED THE DOOR AND THE
FLAMES SHOT UP THE STAIRS.

I RAN UP TO SEE IF IAN WAS THERE.

THEN I

WENT BACK TO THE TELEPHONE AND CALLED THE FIRE-BRIGADE AND WENT

HOME’, SHE TOLD THE JURY.

MISS BREMNER WAS ARRESTED A FEW HOURS LATER.

SHE DENIES A

CHARGE OF ARSON.

THE TRIAL CONTINUES.

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