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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Megan Banner & Ryan Merrifield

Inside grim windowless cellar 'unsuitable for humans' where man died as landlord jailed

The landlord of a cellar flat "unsuitable for human habitation" where a fire killed a man, has been jailed for breaching health and safety regulations.

Philip Sheridan died from smoke inhalation during a blaze in his unofficially converted basement home in Harehills, Leeds, in summer 2019.

Photos released by police showed the oven where the fire started, and the door the 36-year-old tenant struggled to escape through.

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