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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Danny Rigg & Graeme Murray

Grandad 'trapped in his home' by fatal condition that will need oxygen tanks soon

A grandad is "trapped in his own home" by a fatal condition which will soon require oxygen tanks.

Leon Johnson's doctor reckoned he had "smoked all his life" when he began getting short of breath and "couldn't walk very far" in 2017.

But he hadn't and instead his father and grandad smoked openly in their terraced house in Merseyside and black smoke blew back fumes their coal fire.

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