A drug-addicted prostitute traded tearful remorse for vicious rage Friday, lashing out at the victims of a tryst gone wrong as she got seven years for a $1.5-million hotel fire that left a woman with horrific injuries.

Judge Lise Maisonneuve told Melissa White that seeing Shannon Oliver’s injuries had clearly “brought home the consequences of her act” before handing her five years and four months on top of credit for time served.

“Ms. White, I sincerely wish you good luck,” Maisonneuve said. “I sincerely hope things get better for you.” “I don’t f------ regret nothing,” White snarled back from the prisoner’s box. “I’m getting five years for those f------ stupid a-------.”

It was a far cry from her demeanour last month — as the Crown sought 10 years — when she wept in apparent remorse at Oliver’s scarred face and laboured breathing through a tracheotomy.

Oliver, 25, and her boyfriend, Daniel Leween, rented room 222 at the Radisson Hotel on New Year’s Eve.

White arrived at their room early the next morning.

She said she had a few drinks with the couple then left when nothing happened.

She then got into a fight with Leween when she refused to return their cash.

In what Maisonneuve agreed was a premeditated act of revenge that recklessly endangered lives, a drunken White got a can of gas and torched the area outside the couple’s room.

Firefighters found the second floor engulfed in flames.

The hotel was evacuated of guests, including children visiting from China and Germany for a hockey tournament.

Oliver was found badly burned in the hallway, her body poisoned with cyanide.

She’s still undergoing treatment for agonizing pain. Her vocal cords are fused. Doctors can’t say if she’ll ever be able to speak. Leween suffered burns and was in the hospital for a week. A third guest suffered smoke inhalation.

White turned herself in the next day and later pleaded guilty.

Those were some of the mitigating factors cited by the judge in sentencing White, who had an alcoholic mother, abusive father and difficult childhood in foster care. She lost the child she had at 16.

“Ms. White is an individual who is quite damaged,” Maisonneuve said, arguing she needs to control her impulses for the protection of others.

White was also ordered to pay about $18,000 to the three people who were hurt.

megan.gillis@sunmedia.ca