A 21-year-old man burnt his own hand when he set fire to a car in a dispute over an unpaid debt.
Brandon Sutton smashed up a Mini Cooper with a golf club and then poured accelerant over it and set the car alight.
The incident happened on Harding Avenue in the Orford area of Warrington on July 2 this year.
Liverpool Crown court heard that Sutton went to the house to demand money owed to him by a man.
The man was not there but Sutton told the man's mother that he would come back later that night and cause damage unless the cash was paid.
Her victim impact statement revealed that the car 'blew up' outside her home.
When police arrested Sutton, of no fixed abode, one of his hands was badly burned.
The judge, Recorder Ian Unsworth, QC, told the court that the incident was over an 'unpaid debt.'
Local media reported that the money owed was in fact a drug debt.
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Sutton, who has a long criminal record, was jailed for two years. during a hearing at Liverpool Crown on September 9.
He had pleaded guilty to arson.
Sutton was also handed a restraining order to prevent him contacting the victims or entering Harding Avenue indefinitely.
Anyone with information about organised crime in Warrington can call police on 101, via the force's website or by calling Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111
