The grieving mother of a seven-year-old boy who died when a cannabis lab exploded beneath their flat tearfully told a drug dealer 'you killed my son'.
Reece Galbraith and his friend Jason 'Jay' Laws were using a flat in Newcastle to run an illegal drugs operation when a blast ripped through the building in the early hours of October 16 last year.
Laws and Archie York, who was asleep with his father on a sofa in the flat above, were killed in the explosion which destroyed six flats and sparked a 'fierce fire'.
Galbraith, of Gateshead, was jailed for 14 years yesterday after previously admitting two counts of manslaughter as well as possessing and supplying cannabis.
Archie's mother, Katherine Errington, addressed him directly as she read a highly-emotional victim impact statement to Newcastle Crown Court.
