Sandip Singh Rooprai, 20, also twice attacked the home of one of his sister's Muslim friends for acting as a witness at the secret wedding.

He believed his family had been dishonoured in the Sikh community after his 22-year-old sister Pardip married neighbour Gaurav Kapoor, 29, at a Hindu temple in October 2007.

A jury heard Rooprai, a car factory worker, travelled with friends Mukham Singh Dogra, 18, and Jasdev Dogra, 19, from their home in Swindon, Wilts, to the house of priest Kamlesh Vyas in Bristol.

Rooprai and Mukham Dogra poured petrol through the letter box and set it alight, but did not wait around to see what damage had been caused. However, it failed to take hold.

Jasdev Dogra drove them back to Swindon, where they firebombed a Ford Scorpio car they wrongly believed belonged to the father of wedding witness Alpona Begum Rahim.

Three days later all three men went to Miss Rahim's family home and threw a petrol bomb at the front window.

But the Molotov cocktail failed to smash the double glazing and they returned two weeks later with a brick and another petrol bomb having sought advice on how to make them on the internet.

This time the fire took hold. Miss Rahim and her mother took cover in an upstairs bedroom to avoid thick smoke until the fire brigade arrived and put out the blaze.

Prosecutor Ian Lawrie told the jury at Winchester Crown Court that the attacks were prompted by a "warped sense of honour".

Rooprai and the Dogras, all from Swindon, each deny three charges of arson with intent to endanger life and two alternative charges of reckless arson.

All three defendants have admitted arson on the car and one charge of reckless arson at Miss Rahim's house.

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