"That was the sometime uncomfortable irony, while I was writing this my two sons had a sort of full-blown fire-fighter obsession. And, yes, Hooper did ask his lawyers whether he used to watch Fireman Sam. Sokaluk's favourite way to pass the time was to watch children's cartoons – Thomas the Tank Engine and Bob the Builder his picks. Even to the point that they were uncertain after the jury returned their verdict that he understood that he had been found guilty and was going to be going to jail for a long time." "There were moments when I think his legal team didn't feel very confident that he knew what was going on. And implicitly whether the court system is the right way to deal with someone like him. So the questions she asks is whether he was a fiend or a simpleton, or both. Hooper says he is not an uncommon character in the law nor in a small town. Nor did she want to paint an entirely unsympathetic picture of Sokaluk. To do so, she says, would be disrespectful to those who died. (His eventual version involved a cigarette and a paper napkin tossed from his sky-blue Holden). Hooper does not doubt that Brendan Sokaluk, who was sentenced to 17 years and three months in jail, deliberately lit the fire, even though he never admitted it.
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