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Daily Mirror
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Ryan Merrifield

Man jailed for killing boy, 2, in blast after cutting gas pipe to sell for scrap metal

A "neighbour from hell" who caused a gas explosion which killed a two-year-old boy after cutting a pipe to sell for scrap metal has been jailed.

Darren Greenham, 45, used an angle grinder to cut the pipe in the early hours of May 16 last year, causing the huge explosion which killed George Hinds.

His family lived in the neighbouring property in Mallowdale Avenue, Heysham, Lancashire.

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