I don’t know how the parents have coped. I have a little boy and the thought of that happening to him is heartbreaking. It means nothing, but my heart goes out to the parents and to the little boy who lost his life, short as it was.
Unfortunately, this won’t change anything either. We have lived next door to people like this though thankfully not so extreme, but nothing is done about them. If they are evicted, they are just put somewhere else to terrorise others. I don’t really know what the solution is.
That could have killed many, many more people.
That man should be in prison for the rest of his life.
Manslaughter does have a maximum sentence of life in prison, but I think it’s unlikely he’ll get it.
When you read ‘neighbour from hell’ caused gas explosion you think he might have been careless but then you find out he was cutting bits of the gas pipes off to sell for scrap, and that’s what killed that poor little boy?
Just awful.
There was something in the old assessments of people like this as ‘deranged’ and ‘immoral’ and placing them into a county asylum community tbh.
Why the fuck didn’t the police and council do anything sooner? I mean, I know the answer is probably lack of funding, but still. Antisocial noise at all hours, verbal threats of violence – someone should stepped in.
I was working on a construction site as an apprentice about 16 years ago. My boss told me the entire site was shut off from the utilities and asked me to cut off all of the gas meters. We were general contractors and did all construction work throughout the build, so this was new to me but not unexpected. I got to the main, put my saw on the copper pipe and thought the tap looked peculiar. So I turned it and a lot of gas rushed out. That curiosity saved my life and others.
Horrible story, but just a a matter of interest he altered the gas meter to get free gas? How exactly would one go about doing this? /s
There should be a simple three strikes and you’re out system, if someone can’t conduct their daily living in a manner that doesn’t constantly disturb those around them then they lose the right to that property.
Obviously you get neighbours who can be overly-critical of the slightest thing and each case should be judged on its own merits, but in a case as clear cut as this (blasting music in the early hours, making threats etc) he should have been evicted from that property long ago.
If someone with no conscience at all begins to feel they can get away with whatever they like then it will almost always end in tragedy, usually for an innocent party. Hope lessons will be learnt from this and society recognises prevention is better than an apology.
He survived cutting into a live gas pipe which exploded….jesus christ.
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I don’t know how the parents have coped. I have a little boy and the thought of that happening to him is heartbreaking. It means nothing, but my heart goes out to the parents and to the little boy who lost his life, short as it was.
Unfortunately, this won’t change anything either. We have lived next door to people like this though thankfully not so extreme, but nothing is done about them. If they are evicted, they are just put somewhere else to terrorise others. I don’t really know what the solution is.
That could have killed many, many more people.
That man should be in prison for the rest of his life.
Manslaughter does have a maximum sentence of life in prison, but I think it’s unlikely he’ll get it.
When you read ‘neighbour from hell’ caused gas explosion you think he might have been careless but then you find out he was cutting bits of the gas pipes off to sell for scrap, and that’s what killed that poor little boy?
Just awful.
There was something in the old assessments of people like this as ‘deranged’ and ‘immoral’ and placing them into a county asylum community tbh.
Why the fuck didn’t the police and council do anything sooner? I mean, I know the answer is probably lack of funding, but still. Antisocial noise at all hours, verbal threats of violence – someone should stepped in.
I was working on a construction site as an apprentice about 16 years ago. My boss told me the entire site was shut off from the utilities and asked me to cut off all of the gas meters. We were general contractors and did all construction work throughout the build, so this was new to me but not unexpected. I got to the main, put my saw on the copper pipe and thought the tap looked peculiar. So I turned it and a lot of gas rushed out. That curiosity saved my life and others.
Horrible story, but just a a matter of interest he altered the gas meter to get free gas? How exactly would one go about doing this? /s
There should be a simple three strikes and you’re out system, if someone can’t conduct their daily living in a manner that doesn’t constantly disturb those around them then they lose the right to that property.
Obviously you get neighbours who can be overly-critical of the slightest thing and each case should be judged on its own merits, but in a case as clear cut as this (blasting music in the early hours, making threats etc) he should have been evicted from that property long ago.
If someone with no conscience at all begins to feel they can get away with whatever they like then it will almost always end in tragedy, usually for an innocent party. Hope lessons will be learnt from this and society recognises prevention is better than an apology.
He survived cutting into a live gas pipe which exploded….jesus christ.