A YOUNG father who was set on fire while asleep at a party has been shocked to hear that no one is to pay for his ordeal.

David Day looks in the mirror in disbelief at the burns under his arm and across his back and still cannot sleep at night three months after someone poured perfume over him and set him alight.

The 21-year-old asks his mum Tracy ‘how can somebody have done all of this to me’ and ‘why’ and she says she feel helpless that she can’t give him an answer.

She said: “He’s shocked that he can be set on fire and nothing can be done about it – and he’s got to live with the scars.

“He can’t get to sleep at night until about six or seven in the morning when he gets maybe an hour.”

She was dreading having to tell her son that the police do not have enough evidence from the attack at the house in Ranelagh Road, Weymouth, to prosecute.

And Mrs Day fears her son will need counselling as his wounds are not healing properly yet and the treatment will last for three years.

Mr Day – known as DJ – was asleep in the house he shared with six others in Weymouth’s Park District in the early hours of Saturday, July 23, when he was set on fire.

There were various visitors to the house and one reveller said they heard somebody say ‘let’s set DJ on fire’.

Witnesses said he walked into the kitchen in flames as others laughed and then friends smothered the blaze.

But three teenagers, aged 16, 17 and 18, who were subsequently arrested have been released from police custody without charge.

Mrs Day, 45, talking at her Littlemoor home, said: “All we wanted was justice and any normal parent would want the same.

“And I don’t mean anybody shooting or hurting them I mean them being taken to court.

“They need help or they could do it again. What if he had died?”

The former Wey Valley School pupil – who has a one-year-old daughter – underwent skingraft operations lasting four and seven hours long at the Odstock burns unit in Salisbury.

And his Dad Nigel is ‘disgusted’ that nobody is being charged.

He said: “If they’ve got away with doing this to my son they are going to think ‘right I’ve got away with torching him’ and they will think they can do it again.

“My lad’s been torched and they are laughing their heads off.

“Somebody there saw exactly what happened so I feel like the police could’ve done a lot more. I’ve lost faith in the justice system.”

Dorset Police continue to appeal to witnesses or anybody with information to contact them on 101.