Man sentenced to three years in Sundre arson fire

A three-year jail term has been given to a Sundre-area man convicted in a 2015 arson fire that saw a woman and the home she was in doused with gasoline before it was set ablaze.

Derek Littlejohn, 46, was also given two years of probation and a five-year firearms ban in Didsbury provincial court on Apr. 29 after being found guilty last August of arson and failing to comply with a probation order in the incident four years ago.

It was Jan. 7, 2015 when Sundre RCMP, EMS and local firefighters attended a rural residence in the Bearberry area along Secondary Highway 584 northwest of Sundre to find a home fully engulfed in flames.