A TOTAL AEROSOL
Moron leaves girl screaming in agony after he lights spray can and uses it like a flamethrower
A TEENAGER left a schoolgirl screaming in agony after he used an aerosol can as a makeshift flamethrower.
Luke Gillard, 18, lit the spray with a lighter and pointed the shooting flame at the sleeping 15-year-old.
She suffered a large burn to the inside of her leg and spent two nights in the burns unit at St John’s Hospital in Livingston.
The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, and her friend had gone to a house party at Gillard’s home in Bonnyrigg, Midlothian, in January last year. But when they arrived, only Gillard and another male were there.
All four drank vodka and colas, and listened to music before the victim fell asleep on a couch in Gillard’s bedroom.
As she slept, Gillard and the other male were messing around with an aerosol and a lighter.
Gillard tried to singe his friend’s hair with the flamethrower but missed and burned the girl on the leg.
She woke up due to the pain but all three others refused to tell her what had caused the six-inch burn to her inner thigh.
However, when the girls left the house the next morning, her friend told her she had been burned by Gillard.
The scared teen, now 16, refused to tell her parents what had happened.
But with the pain being “unbearable to sleep” with, she opened up and told her grandmother about the incident.
She was taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary for treatment but the wound had become infected and she had to be transferred to St John’s for further skin treatment. Police were informed.
When he appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court last month, Gillard pled guilty to recklessly spraying the aerosol can at the girl and using a lighter to ignite the flame, causing severe injury and disfigurement.
He returned to court for sentencing, where Sheriff Alistair Noble issued Gillard with a 220-hour unpaid work order.