A MAN has been cleared of setting fire to his mum’s home in a block of flats in Cardenden.

Other residents woke up to see flames coming from a window in the early hours of the morning at the end of January.

The fire service investigations found the blaze was probably started deliberately on a sofa in the living room.

A neighbour said they heard Zak Paterson shouting and swearing outside the building before the fire.

However, after a trial at Dunfermline Sheriff Court, a jury delivered a not proven verdict on fire-raising.

He was found guilty of breaching bail conditions by being with his mum and in her home. Paterson was jailed for 12 months for these offences backdated to January 30 when he was taken into custody.

Paterson, 27, a prisoner at Perth, was found guilty of breaching bail conditions between January 8-28 by repeatedly being in the company of his mum.

He also breached bail conditions preventing him from entering his mother’s home in Cardenden Road.

There was a not proven verdict to the charge on January29 that he wilfully set fire to a sofa which spread, causing damage to the interior of the flat and to the danger of lives.