A 29-YEAR-OLD man was sniffing petrol in the roof cavity of a Darwin shopping centre shortly before a fire ignited, a court has heard.
Gabriel Brendon Hazelbane faced Darwin Magistrates Court on Wednesday charged with two counts of damage to property and one count of recklessly endangering life.
Prosecutors allege Hazelbane lit a fire at Casuarina Shopping Centre in Darwin on September 6 above the People's Choice Credit Union, after unlawfully entering the roof space above the shop and setting fire to combustible liquids.
Defence counsel Anthony Pyne said his client suffered from substance abuse problems and was in a "difficult and desperate" time in his life.
He said Hazelbane had allegedly set up a bed inside the roof cavity and was sniffing petrol when it accidentally ignited.
Magistrate Daynor Trigg said the fire may have been an accident, but nothing should have been lit in a roof space.
"It sounds like an offence of stupidity rather than something that was intentional," Mr Trigg said.
No one was hurt during the incident.
Hazelbane was bailed to reappear on October 30.
Hazelbane's ex-girlfriend Susannah Maree Rigby also appeared in court, charged with damaging Hazelbane's car and contravening a domestic violence order.
Rigby, 22, pleaded guilty to shattering the windscreen of the car and scratching the word "junkie" into the bonnet with scissors.
She said she had been in a five-year relationship with Hazelbane that ended in January and the couple had two children.
Rigby admitted she did the wrong thing in attacking the car, but said she had been provoked by text messages from Hazelbane taunting her that he had been using the car he had given her to sell drugs and take women.
She was handed suspended sentences.
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