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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Katie Dickinson and Tom Wilkinson

‘You killed my son’: Explosion victim’s mother sobs as cannabis gummy dealer sentenced

A drug dealer who caused the death of a seven-year-old boy in an explosion has been sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Reece Galbraith and his friend Jason “Jay” Laws were using a Newcastle flat as a drugs lab when a blast ripped through the building in the early hours of October 16.

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