Arsonist set himself on fire

  A businessman accidentally set himself on fire when he started a blaze at his mother’s Grade Two listed cottage to get an insurance payout, a court heard. Suranja Thilekaratne, 39, stumbled out of Old Park Lodge in Wembley, Middlesex, with ‘life-changing’ injuries after a deliberate arson attack on 2 November 2013. He allegedly doused the empty two-bedroom cottage, built in the 1800s, in petrol and set it alight, either to claim the insurance money or make it easier to…