Overview
- Teesside Crown Court handed Carl Wild an extended 18 years 6 months for offences including grievous bodily harm with intent and aggravated burglary, comprising 13 years 6 months in custody plus five years on licence.
- Simone Reed was jailed for 32 months for encouraging or assisting arson after driving Wild to buy petrol, paying for the items and making petrol‑bomb threats.
- Lee Wild received 18 weeks for a public order offence after confronting rescuers outside the bar, with release expected due to time served on remand.
- CCTV showed Reed and Wild buying petrol, bottles, rags and bleach before Wild threw a lit bottle at bystander David Brotton, who sustained third-degree burns to his head, neck and back.
- After the firebombing, Wild sprayed bleach at customers, attacked the DJ with a car jack, wrecked the bar and stole the till, as police later praised staff and patrons for extinguishing the flames.