Jay Bradley leaves the Napanee, Ont. courthouse on Nov. 1, 2024. The 50-year-old has pled guilty to two counts of arson and one of criminal harassment in connection with a pair of fires that destroyed the town's old arena and a home garage in October 2023.
The former operator of a roller rink will spend more than three years in prison for setting a pair of fires that destroyed a home garage and much-loved community centre in Napanee, Ont., last year.Jay Bradley leaves the courthouse in Napanee, Ont., on Nov. 1, 2024. The 50-year-old pleaded guilty to two counts of arson and one count of criminal harassment in connection with a pair of fires that destroyed the town's old arena and a home garage in October 2023.
"Anyone who could do something this evil and destructive has something, in my mind, wrong with them," said the judge.Court previously heard about the pain and fear that remained long after the fires in the early hours of Oct. 23, 2023, were extinguished.Kingston man charged in connection with 2 suspicious fires in Napanee area
"I am now afraid of the dark, scared of what is out there," she told court during an appearance on Nov. 1. "It has been 375 days of rising from the ashes, and many more to come." Last week, he appeared before a packed courtroom where 10 victim impact statements were read out. They included statements from the McKinleys and others who said the community centre had been the site of generations of memories, and more like a home than an arena.
Asked by the judge what led him to set the fires, Bradley spoke about his past success in the IT industry and the depression he fell into after he lost his job.
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