A WEDDING dress shop owner torched her fiance’s home after he called off their marriage plans, a court heard.
Jilted Catherine Jarvis 54, was so keen to marry Colin Jarvis, 55, she changed her surname to his by deed poll months ahead of their big day.
But when Colin then called off the wedding she stormed round his flat – and used a ladder to climb in over the balcony.
She set fire to the tassels of one of his chairs and left the building in Kingskerswell, Devon, to burn – causing thousands of pounds worth of damage.
Jarvis watched the fire and was arrested after Colin tipped off the police but she denied it and police later dropped the investigation.
But Colin’s persistence that she was responsible saw the case reopened and Jarvis changed her plea to guilty on the first day of a trial.
Jarvis, who used to run a wedding dress shop, had been experiencing “emotional turmoil” at the time of the fire, Exeter Crown Court was told.
She admitted arson and was given a suspended jail sentence and told she had come within an inch of going to prison.
Speaking after the case Colin, a painter, said: “We were due to be married, I called it off. That’s what triggered it all.
”Before the fire, she had been out on a hen night and she got back and battered me over the head with an ornamental crab.
“She had thrown roast potatoes at me, I can’t stand physical violence like that at all. When she hit me with the crab it was over.”
Prosecutor Caroline Bolt told the court during sentencing that the wedding was called off after the defendant had claimed she had found Colin had been attempting to start another relationship.
But responding to the claims outside court, Colin said: “That was fabricated. It was mentioned in court, but I think that was trying to get her a lesser sentence.
“She had seen a text message sent to someone, but there wasn’t a relationship or anything.”
The court heard she climbed a ladder to scale the outside of the house then sneaked in through a balcony door while Colin was at work.
Once inside she set fire to the tassels of one of his chairs with a cigarette lighter and left the house in Water Lane to burn.
Fire crews put the blaze out but not before several thousand pounds worth of damage had been caused.
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The court heard how the defendant had even put in a £15,000 insurance claim because most of the damaged items belonged to her.
Judge David Evans jailed Jarvis for 21 months but suspended the sentence for two years.
She was given 150 hours of unpaid work and told to pay £3,000 compensation.
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