Fatal Loafers fire accused previously convicted of attempted arson

A court has heard the man accused of lighting the fatal Loafers Lodge fire told a psychiatrist voices in his head told him to burn the place down. It was also revealed the man had previously been convicted of attempted arson. The 50-year-old defendant, whose identity is suppressed, has denied murdering five people by setting the Wellington boarding house alight in 2023. Lauren Crimp, who was at the High Court, spoke to Lisa Owen.