A "neighbour from hell" caused a huge gas explosion that killed a two-year-old boy after cutting a gas pipe to sell for scrap metal.
George Hinds died when Darren Greenham’s drink and drug fuelled late night DIY sent dangerous quantities of gas flowing into the home where he lived in Heysham, Lancashire. Experts said there would have been an obvious sound and smell of gas, the volume of which was so great only a light switch would have been needed to ignite it.
Tragically it did ignite and both Greenham’s house and the neighbouring homes either side were completely destroyed. Some 55 properties were damaged with six homes evacuated and some neighbours were forced to move out for more than a year.
