A WEYMOUTH man with a history of psychiatric problems was given a two-year rehabilitation order after making a napalm concoction and threatening to ignite it at a hospital.

Dorchester Crown Court was told that Thomas Anthony Tetlow, 49, of Thornhill Crescent, had told friends he was going to blow up Weymouth's Blackdown Comm-unity Hospital, where he was being treated for mental health problems.

He was angry and wanted revenge because he blamed his illness on the drugs he was prescribed at the hospital, the court was told.

On July 2 last year he is said to have told his nurse Paul Smart: 'I love the smell of napalm', then said the line was from the film Apocalypse Now. But later that day he bought five litres of petrol from a nearby garage and went home to mix it with naphthalene.

Tetlow showed friends what the substance he had created could do, setting a wheelbarrow-full of it on fire - but the court was told that it would not have been highly flammable after five minutes.

By the time the friends left, Tetlow was drunk and he made a series of calls to the police, saying: "The drugs they gave me have no antidote. That is why I am completely insane."

Later that day he went to Blackdown Hospital and coated the door of one of the units with the substance, taping two black roses in a cross formation on the door.

And he contacted a local radio station, saying: "Look, I'm going to tell you I have napalmed Blackdown. I've gone and done it now."

Frank Abbott, representing Tetlow, said he had never seen such a transformation in one of his clients as he had seen in Tetlow over the past few months.

He had a charge of criminal damage with intent to endanger life reduced to criminal damage due to his psychiatric problems. Sentencing Tetlow to a two-year community rehabilitation order, Judge Robert Pryor said: "On the face of it this seemed an extremely serious offence. But I take account of the fact that you were in a very fraught mental state and that the things you did were unlikely to cause serious damage.

"I'm sure this has been a very unpleasant experience for you."