A 60-year-old who wickedly set fire to a house in a bid to murder the two occupants has been jailed for life. In what was described as an “unimaginably brutal and callous” act, Duncan Hornby poured petrol throughout the Faversham property and then waited several minutes for the fumes to build up before igniting them. The result was a massive explosion and inferno in the early hours of July 6 last year which destroyed the terraced house and damaged three neighbouring homes. The intended victims of the murder bid were forced to jump to save their lives, one from an upstairs window and another th…
