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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Eleanor Barlow

‘Neighbour from hell’ jailed for 15 years over gas blast that killed toddler

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A “neighbour from hell” has been jailed for 15 years after causing a gas explosion which killed a toddler when he cut pipes to sell them for scrap metal.

Two-year-old George Hinds died in the explosion in Heysham, Lancashire, on May 16 last year after Darren Greenham, 45, used an angle grinder to cut the pipe while drunk and under the influence of drugs in the early hours of the morning.

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