Vanuatu's Supreme Court has sentenced the two young men accused of burning down the colonial-era Courthouse in Port Vila last year to over six years prison each.
The Daily Post reports that Kenneth Atuary and Awen George pleaded guilty to the charges.
George was given six years and four months imprisonment while Atuary got six years two months and 20 days.
The historic hardwood courthouse, that was built during the colonial rule of France and Great Britain, was razed to the ground on June 27th last year.
The estimated cost of the damage is around 16 million US dollars, most of which covers the value of the content of the documents that went up in flames.
This included current files of the court as well as the courthouse library.
Fire also destroyed the nearby building of the Department of Geology and Mines with an estimated cost in damage of over 8 million US dollars.
