Two men found not guilty of attempted murder in 'human fireball' case
Two men have been found not guilty of attempted murder after a man was set alight on a Dudley petrol station forecourt.
The jury at Wolverhampton Crown Court returned not guilty verdicts for Grant Thomas, 30, of Turners Hill Road, Lower Gornal, and Stephen Burden, 31, of Wilkinson Road, Darlaston,
However, Burden was found guilty of assault causing grievous bodily harm and jailed for six years.
Grant was discharged after the verdict.
The court heard a man, who had been sitting in the driver’s seat of a Jeep, suffered “significant burns” during a car fire on the forecourt of the Texaco garage in Himley Road, Gornal Wood, on June 2.
