A SPURNED husband who was hell-bent on revenge set fire to a car - then realised he had messed up and picked the wrong motor.

Bungling Brian Jaffray went back two nights later and torched another Citroen in the same street - and was caught on CCTV.

The 40-year-old had already made threats to his ex-wife's new partner about causing damage yet still denied it was him.

He was convicted after a trial last month of two charges of arson and one of threatening to destroy property in February.

Yesterday, the dad-of-two was jailed for four years after a judge at Teesside Crown Court told him: "Your motive was revenge."

The court heard how Jaffray was angry that his ex was planning to change the surnames of their two children after their split.

He contacted her new partner while he was working off-shore, and warned him that he was going to damage his parents' property.

On February 23, he went to Moordale Court in Eston, near Middlesbrough, and set fire to a Citroen C4, said prosecutor Paul Newcombe.

The judge, Recorder Jonathan Sandiford, said it was clear from footage, despite him wearing a hoody, that the attacker was Jaffray.

He said Jaffray could be seen carrying petrol to the scene, spreading the fuel across the vehicle and setting it alight.

Mr Recorder Sandiford told him: "It was the wrong vehicle. It belonged to a man who had nothing to do with your dispute.

"Most people would have left it there, but you were so determined to carry out your threat you went back two nights later.

"You smashed a window on the other Citroen and set it alight. That vehicle was written off by the fire.

"Your motive was revenge. There was a degree of planning and a large degree of determination to carry out the threat.

"On the second occasion, the fire officer said if the fire had not been tackled, there was a risk of it spreading."

Stephen Constantine, for Jaffray, of The Greenway, Middlesbrough, said he had been under pressure at the time of the incidents.

He said a letter from his son described him as "a good dad" and told Mr Recorder Sandiford that he had "a good work ethic".