Restaurant burner gets five years

A firebug who torched an Italian restaurant causing more than £400,000 worth of damage has been jailed for five years. Ahmed Kawa, 35, set fire to Salotto 31 in Lovat Lane, in the City of London on 12 June last year. Kawa denied but was convicted of arson with recklessness as to whether life was endangered when he CCTV footage showed Kawa, setting fire to a bag of rubbish and walking away, allowing the fire to catch onto the outdoor…