A man who’s cannabis lab blew up and killed a man and seven-year-old boy in the explosion has been sentenced to 14 years in prison. Reece Galbraith set up a drug lab in the flat in Benwell, Newcastle, creating cannabis concentrates and turning those products into edibles.

A cannabis lab explosion in Newcastle resulted in the deaths of a child and a man, leading to a 14-year prison sentence for the responsible drug dealer.

Reece Galbraith, 33, has been jailed for 14 years at Newcastle Crown Court for manslaughter after causing the death of two people in a house explosion while making cannabis ‘gummies’.