'Dangerous' drugs lab explodes killing cannabis dealer and seven-year-old boy

Moment 'highly dangerous' drugs lab explodes killing cannabis dealer and seven-year-old boy as he slept in the flat above. 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, 2024. The explosion killed Laws and Archie York, who was asleep in the flat above. Galbraith, of Rectory Road, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, admitted two counts of manslaughter as well as possessing and supplying cannabis, at a hearing last month. Today, he was jailed for 14 years at Newcastle Crown Court.