Arsonist walks free from court after appeal

A volunteer firefighter who admitted deliberately lighting a bushfire and falsely reporting two other blazes has won an appeal against his sentence.

Self-confessed "adrenalin-junkie" Jourdan Dean Ashford walked free from court on Monday after he was re-sentenced to a suspended prison term.

In March Ashford pleaded guilty to reporting his own fire to WA authorities in 2014 and was sentenced to 12 months' jail, with a minimum six months to be served.

At the time, the court heard Ashford went to the scene with the Bedfordale Bushfire Brigade, with the blaze extinguished in less than 10 minutes.

Judge Richard Keen said the fact Ashford was a volunteer firefighter aggravated the crime because he knew better than most the possible consequences of starting a fire.

He told Ashford if the weather conditions had been worse or the blaze had gotten out of hand, the sentence would have been harsher.

But appearing in the WA Court of Appeal on Monday, Ashford argued his sentence was manifestly excessive.

The Appeals' court ruled Ashford should be re-sentenced to nine months in prison, suspended for nine months.