An unemployed motorcycle mechanic who blew up his girlfriend's kitchen during a bungled bid to extract oil from cannabis has been warned he faces jail. Craig Middleton, 33, endangered his partner and the lives of four children who were upstairs.
He watched YouTube videos before rigging up a makeshift still in his partner's three-bedroomed mid-terrace home in a residential street in Tullibody, Clackmannanshire.
He was trying to run butane gas through crushed herbal cannabis stuffed into a plastic bottle, but had forgotten to turn off the tumble drier and a random spark ignited a build-up of gas.
