{"id":331820,"date":"2025-12-23T16:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/331820\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T16:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:43:09","slug":"man-who-set-fire-to-his-own-home-in-tunbridge-wells-is-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/331820\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who set fire to his own home in Tunbridge Wells is jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man who set fire to his own flat has been jailed for more than six years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ryan James, 41, started two fires in his home in Dudley Road, Tunbridge Wells, on 24 August 2024 before locking the front door and walking away, Kent Police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He pleaded guilty to arson involving being reckless as to whether life is endangered at Maidstone Crown Court. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">James was sentenced on Friday to six years and three months in prison and will serve a further three years on licence when eligible for parole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who set fire to his own flat has been jailed for more than six years. Ryan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-331820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}