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Updated: 11:06 PM Dec 1, 2010
Man Pleads Guilty of Burning Down House Because Dinner Wasn't Ready
Guy Jones, the man accused of setting his home on fire because his dinner wasn't ready, pleaded guilty Wednesday to arson charges.
Posted: 11:06 PM Dec 1, 2010Reporter: Brad Myers Email Address: Brad.Myers@wsaz.com |
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UPDATE 12/1/10 @ 11 p.m.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Guy Jones, the man accused of setting his home on fire because his dinner wasn't ready, pleaded guilty Wednesday to arson charges.
He was sentenced to three years home confinement.
Jones was arrested in May after he was out drinking with friends. He became angry when he came home and found out dinner wasn't ready, setting the home on fire.
UPDATE 11/29/10 @ 10:45 p.m.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Guy Jones, the man accused of setting his home on fire because his dinner wasn't ready, was supposed to go on trial Monday, but it has been delayed.
The trial is expected to start later this week. It was delayed because of paperwork problems.
Jones was arrested in May. His wife says he came home from drinking with friends and was mad because dinner wasn't ready to be served. That's when she says he set their house in Sissonville on fire.
Jones is charged with first-degree arson.
ORIGINAL STORY 5/24/10
SISSONVILLE, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Police in Kanawha County say it's unlike any case of domestic violence they've ever seen. Sunday night, Beverly Jones says her husband of seven years returned home from a night of drinking with friends. Beverly says her husband, Guy, became upset that his dinner wasn't ready and on the table.
"He started throwing furniture and tore up all the glass tables," Beverly Jones said. "Then he told me I had to get out because he was going to burn the house down. He told me if I didn't get out he would burn me with the house."
Guy followed through with his threat, and a short while later, the Jones' home of 10 years was gone. The whole ordeal has left Beverly and her friends wondering why.
"Why would you burn your own things," Beverly Jones said. "If he didn't want to be with me, all he had to do is say 'I don't want to be with you.'"
For Beverly's best friend, Lana Taylor, seeing everything her friend had ever worked for go up in flames is almost too much. She says the fact it was all over Guy's dinner not being ready makes her even more furious.
"Why," Taylor said. "Why did he feel he had to burn down the house. Why was that so important? Its not like he can't cook. He can cook."
In the end, Beverly says her husband not only destroyed their home, but also their marriage.
"We're headed for divorce court just as fast as I can get there," Beverly Jones said. "I hope I don't see him again."
Latest Comments
No the state of WV will pay for him a house , food stamps and pay all his bills...... I am sure of it, he will live better than the people busting there butts trying to make a living
what a duffus. If I was her, I'd run fast and never look back.
home confinement with no house, was webster the judge who did that? wouldnt suprise me haha
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