Qld: Long threatened to burn hostel, court told

AAP General News (Australia)
01-11-2001
Qld: Long threatened to burn hostel, court told

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By Janelle Miles

BRISBANE, Jan 11 AAP - The man accused of setting fire to the Palace backpacker hostel
threatened to burn the building down in the weeks before last year's inferno which left
15 people dead, a court was told today.

New Zealander Aaron Ellmers testified at the Brisbane Magistrates Court that Robert
Paul Long had told him: "I've had enough of this place. I should just burn the fucking
place down with all you cunts in there."

Long is charged with arson and with …