Arsonist sentencing delayed

Photo: Paul Cousins

This file photo shows the Kin Race Track grandstand burning.

UPDATE 10:26 p.m.

The sentencing of a Vernon arsonist has been delayed.

William Munton was supposed to find out what his sentence will be Monday morning, but the matter was adjourned to Friday at 2 p.m.

A North Okanagan man who pleaded guilty to a string of fires has a sentencing hearing on Monday in Vernon.

William Munton, pleaded guilty in early October to seven charges of arson, including in a fire that destroyed the Kin racetrack grandstand. He will appear in Vernon Law Courts.

The 56-year-old man had 19 counts against him from fires targeting dumpsters, vehicles, boats and structures between May and November 2014.

Back in July 2014, fire investigators and the Vernon RCMP determined a raging inferno at the Kin Race Track fire was an act of arson.

“After several days of combing through the debris that remained after the fire at the Kin Racetrack grandstands, their investigation had determined that the fire to the structure was an arson,” RCMP Spokesman Gord Molendyk told Castanet in 2014.

Munton entered a guilty plea in October and he was supposed to have a jury trial.