An explosion which killed two people in the West End of Newcastle, including a seven-year-old boy, was caused by a build up of butane gas being used to create cannabis shatter. On October 16, 2024, a ...

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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. The explosion killed Laws and ...

The mother of seven-year-old Archie York says she is "heartbroken" and "can't live her life without him" as her son's killer is jailed for manslaughter. The family were sleeping in an upstairs flat ...

Reece Galbraith, 33, has admitted the manslaughter of Archie York and Galbraith’s friend Jason ‘Jay’ Laws (Northumbria Police/PA) A seven-year-old boy was killed in a house explosion caused by ...

The blast in Violet Close in Benwell, Newcastle, which killed Archie York, seven, and a 33-year-old man (Owen Humphreys/PA) A man is to be sentenced for causing an explosion while processing cannabis ...