A YOUNG arsonist who caused around £600,000 damage after failing to burgle a golf shop will have to wait to learn his fate, following the case’s third adjournment.
Dale Ogden, aged 20, of Morris Avenue in Westy, and his accomplice, Nathan Bates, aged 18, of Molyneux Avenue both pleaded guilty to burgling KW Golf and causing the Bewsey Road blaze in June 2008.
In December, Bates was jailed for 16 months for burglary and three years and four months for arson, with the sentences running concurrently.
But Judge Thomas Teague refused to sentence Ogden until psychiatric reports had been completed.
At Warrington Crown Court on Friday, the 20-year-old’s sentencing was adjourned again because the defendant’s co-accussed had appealed his sentence.
Judge Teague said the hearing would be put back until Bates’ appeal was finalised in case the jail term was reduced at the High Courts in London.
Ogden, who wore a Lactose sweatshirt and blue rosary beads in court, is expected to be sentenced next week.
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