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Grant mcCabe & Debbie Hall

Man jailed after deliberately causing gas leak that destroyed neighbour's flat

A man who blew up his upstairs neighbour’s flat in a major gas blast after a noise row has been locked up for five years.

Robert Russell deliberately caused the leak sparking a huge fireball when unsuspecting Bill Mazs turned on his cooker.

The 60 year-old had earlier uncapped a pipe which ended up wrecking the two-storey property at Dixon Terrace, Whitburn on December 8, 2020.

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