A Tenby man who set fire to a house in a fit of jealousy has been found guilty.

It was the second time Dominic Fecci, aged 26, had been tried.

After his first trial at Swansea Crown Court, the jury failed to agree upon a verdict.

But after a second trial, the new jury returned a guilty verdict, but only by a majority of 10 to two.

Fecci, of Picton House, Upper Frog Street, will be sentenced on July 1 after a probation officer has prepared a report into his background.

Judge John Diehl granted him bail meanwhile, but warned him not to read anything into it.

Fecci's barrister, Chris Clee, said his client had understood the consequences of a guilty verdict 'from the start'.

The jury had heard how Fecci set fire to a house in Lower Park Road, Tenby, which his former girlfriend was 'house sitting' while the owner, her aunt Katherine Broadhurst, holidayed in America.

On New Year's Eve, 2007, Jade Marie Broadhurst decided to go into Tenby and bumped into Fecci, who seemed to be under the impression she would spend the evening indoors.

She returned to the house and met up with a friend, Celia McGilloway, who was sleeping there so she could get to work at the nearby Five Ways Spar store on time the following morning.

But during the night, Miss Broadhurst left to walk to her grandmother's house, leaving Miss McGilloway alone in the house. 

Miss McGilloway said she had gone to sleep and had not realised Miss Broadhurst had left the house.

She awoke to see Fecci standing in the doorway of her bedroom, asking where Miss Broadhurst was.

"He said he thought she was with another man. He was quite angry, jealous," she added.

She decided to leave and telephoned her mother in Lamphey.

Miss Broadhurst said as her mother arrived to collect her outside the Five Ways Spar she saw Fecci walk past. Fearing he may have left the house unsecured she asked her mother to drive the short distance back.

By then, a fire alarm was going off and she could see smoke.

Miss McGilloway said she dialled 999 and, while waiting for a fire engine, again saw Fecci.

This time he ran into the burning building - looking, she thought, for Miss Broadhurst. 

The jury heard that Fecci himself ended up being rescued by firemen.