A WOMAN who recruited two teenage thugs and persuaded them to firebomb her neighbour's house has been jailed for a year.

Dawn Monaghan, 37, targeted her former friend Jackie Campbell, 39, as she slept in her home.

The terrifying attack came just days after Jackie, of Alloa, Stirlingshire, had became embroiled in a row with neighbour and ex-pal Monaghan.

The pair had fallen out over claims Monaghan had allowed wild parties and noisy teenagers to run riot in their street.

But after a minor squabble Monaghan hatched a plot with Ryan MacSween, 16, and Andrew Hunter, 17, to turn Jackie's home into a warzone.

Jackie had gone to bed when her 16-year-old son Tony raised the alarm after hearing two explosions coming from the garden at 1.30am.

One of the home made bombs had exploded on the front door erupting in flames.

And a second bounced just below the living room window before exploding in the garden.

The attacks on July 25 last year caused £1555 worth of damage.

Sheriff David Mackie told Monaghan a jail term was the only sentence suitable for her crimes.

He added: "It was an act of reckless intolerance as to whether there was anyone in the house or not - which there was.

"The suggestion that you snapped is completely undermined by the level of premeditation shown and the fact that you recruited two impressionable young people to do the work for you.

"You were in full possession of your powers of reason and these actions could have been disastrous, even fatal, for the people in that house."

An earlier hearing at Alloa Sheriff Court heard how a 14-year-old boy had overheard Monaghan saying to Hunter and MacSween: 'Right, we're going to bomb the Campbell's house'.

Depute Fiscal Kerri Marshall said: "A short time later the witness looked out of the window and saw the accused Hunter and McSween in the street and saw Hunter throw the lit petrol bomb at the house."

Hunter and MacSween, both of Alloa, were later traced by police and during interviews admitted their part in the offence.

Hunter was placed on two years probation and ordered to complete 240 hours unpaid work in the community when he appeared at Alloa Sherif Court last month.

MacSween was ordered to complete 300 hours of community service.

Defence lawyer Alastair Burleigh said Monaghan, a first offender, had reached her 'breaking point'.

He said: "Miss Monaghan has behavioural matters and suffers from impulsive behaviour at times.

"She has had a difficult background, heightened by the loss of her partner several years ago.

"She had a breaking point and reached it but fortunately her actions did not have more serious consequences."