Overview

• Teesside Crown Court sentenced Carl Wild to 13 years and six months in prison plus a five-year extended licence for causing grievous bodily harm with intent and related offences.
• Simone Reed was jailed for two years and eight months after admitting encouraging or assisting arson with recklessness as to whether life would be endangered.
• Lee Wild received an 18‑week term for a public order offence, with release expected due to time served on remand.
• CCTV captured the purchase of petrol, bottles, rags and bleach before Wild threw a lit Molotov cocktail at David Brotton, who sustained third‑degree burns.
• Bystanders and bar staff extinguished the flames as Wild then rampaged inside, squirting bleach, attacking the DJ with a car jack, smashing property and stealing the till.