More psychiatric assessment for accused in Milltown arson case

Donald CraigMacHaight, 48, accused of setting fire to three public buildings in Milltown-Head of Bay d'Espoir in January has been sent for further psychiatric assessment.

After MacHaight's case was called in provincial court in St. John's on Friday, hewas remanded to the Waterford Hospital in St. John's for another seven-day assessment.

MacHaight is accused of setting fire to Bay d'EspoirAcademy, the town hall and the RCMP detachment in a string of fires in the early hours of Jan. 17.

MacHaighthas already undergone a seven-day assessment in St. John's.

His case is scheduled to be called in Grand Falls-Windsor court on Feb. 10.