A man who admitted trying to start a serious fire at a petrol station has been told not to celebrate "by going out and doing a line of cocaine" after being given a suspended sentence.

Max Evans, aged 36, and of no fixed abode, appeared at Plymouth Crown Court after offering guilty please to the charge of attempted arson with recklessness as to whether life was endangered.

His arrest followed an incident at the Esso fuel station on Wolseley Road, Plymouth at around 4am on Sunday April 27.

Prosecutor Michael Brown said the station worker was on her night shift serving customers through the hatch when Evans appeared. She later told police he appeared to be behaving "extremely erratically" and pacing around. He told her people had been chasing him. The worker refused to serve him whereupon

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