 | 'Even without an appeal, he could expect to be released from prison at the end of May.' Evening News, 12 th January 2006. |  |
| 'Even without an appeal, he could expect to be released from prison at the end of May.' Evening News, 12 th January 2006. | |
SHAMED peer Lord Watson will have to wait until the end of March to challenge his 16-month jail sentence for setting fire to hotel curtains during a political reception.
Even without an appeal, he could expect to be released from prison at the end of May.
Many prisoners ask a judge to release them on bail pending the outcome of their appeal, but Watson, 56, has made no such application.
Jailing the former Labour MP and MSP in September last year, Sheriff Kathrine Mackie told him: "Fire-raising is a most serious crime."
Watson had admitted starting the £4500 blaze at the Prestonfield Hotel in Priestfield Road, Edinburgh, in November 2004 but said he was so drunk he could not remember the incident.
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