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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Tom Wilkinson

Archie York, 7, killed in his sleep in Newcastle after neighbour’s drug operation exploded

Archie York, 7, was killed in the blast - (Northumbria Police)

A seven-year-old boy was killed in a house explosion caused by criminals making cannabis sweets in a neighbouring flat with 100 gas cannisters, it can now be reported.

Reece Galbraith, 33, has admitted the manslaughter of Archie York and Galbraith’s friend Jason “Jay” Laws, 35, who died in a blast at Violet Close, Benwell, Newcastle, in the early hours of October 16.

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