A "neighbour from hell" caused a gas explosion which resulted in the death of a two-year-old boy, a court heard.
Darren Greenham, 45, used an angle grinder to cut a gas pipe which he intended to sell for scrap metal in the early hours of May 16 last year. The action caused a huge explosion, directly killing George Hinds, whose family lived in the neighbouring property in Mallowdale Avenue, Heysham, Lancashire.
Today Greenham was jailed for 15 years after admitting manslaughter, damaging a gas meter, and theft of gas. George's father, Stephen Hinds, told Preston Crown Court that Greenham made the lives of his neighbours a "misery".
