A man who admitted to setting a fire inside the only full-service grocery store in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside earlier this year has received a two-year conditional sentence followed by two years of probation.

Victor Atkinson, 50, was originally charged with arson to inhabited property and theft in the March 30 fire at Nesters Market but pleaded guilty in June to the lesser charge of arson to property.

At a sentencing hearing Thursday, the court heard Atkinson, who was captured on surveillance and quickly identified by store management and police immediately after the fire, confessed to the crime.

Following his arrest at the nearby Gastown…

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