Tenant tried to burn down flat when he was asked for the rent

A tenant who tried to burn down his landlord’s block of flats when he asked him for the rent has been jailed for 12 months. Trevor Buckley, 47, drank himself into a rage after he was confronted by John Dhaliwal over £11,000 which he claimed he was owed. The Scotsman had sunk up to eight pints on the evening last 22 August, when he told Mr Dhaliwal: ‘You’ll be minus a building’. Buckley collected together wooden chairs and cardboard and…

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