A Wigan lout who torched a home and tried to maim two people will be sentenced next month
A Wigan 18-year-old has admitted to a catalogue crimes including a life-threatening arson attack and trying to injury two people seriously with a knife
A teenaged Wigan arsonist who tried inflict grave injuries against two men is awaiting his court fate.
Michael McGuigan, 18, of Wigan Road, Ashton, stood before borough magistrates to plead guilty to a total of nine charges including knife possession and attempting to cause two men grievous bodily harm deliberately on July 27.
He confessed that he threatened to firebomb a woman's house in Recreation Avenue, Ashton, on April 24 and then actually did set it alight that same day, being reckless to whether life was in danger.
And there were further admissions: assaulting two police constables on August 19, damaging doors at Swinton police station on April 26 and smashing windows at another woman's home on December 8 last year.
McGuigan was granted conditional bail until a Liverpool Crown Court judge sentences him on October 16.