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Jamie Lopez & Katie Weston

Complaints about 'neighbour from hell' who killed boy in cut pipe gas blast ignored

The grieving mum of a two-year-old boy killed in a gas explosion caused by a "neighbour from hell" has said his death could have been avoided after terrorised residents' complaints fell on deaf ears.

George Hinds died after next-door neighbour Darren Greenham cut a copper pipe in his own home in Heysham, Lancashire, in the early hours of May 16 last year, as part of an attempt to sell scrap metal.

But instead the anti-social neighbour caused a gas leak which left two homes collapsed and a third seriously damaged.

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