Neighbour smelt gas weeks before fatal explosion

When he heard an investigation, a man who died in an explosion in a house said his neighbor, smelling gas in the previous weeks.

68 -year -old Brian Davies was killed in an explosion at his home at Clydach Road in Swansea, Swansea on March 13, 2023.

Three people, including a 14 -year -old child, were taken to hospitalMr. Davies’ neighbor Claire Bennett had to be saved from his house.

He said that an investigation in Swansea on Monday, which was attributed to the maintenance of a nearby house, smells of gas behind his property for a few weeks.

On the day of the explosion, Ms. Bennett took her daughter to school and was sitting in the hall when she heard a high explosion.

“There was a big explosion and I immediately thought that a car hit the front corner of the house.”

“Things were dark and I lost a few seconds and came. The house was full of debris, and the ceiling and walls had fallen.

“I remember saying ‘no problem’ the voice of a gentleman.

He and his son Ethan should have therapy for post -traumatic stress disorder (PTSB) after the explosion.

“[My son] He flew from the building. I tried to be strong, but it was really hard, ”he said.

“Brian’s house was completely destroyed and at first they didn’t know it was a house there.”

He said he smelled gas behind his house before the incident.

“I took it out of the side door for about two weeks and had a really strong smell of gas on the road,” he said.

“At that time, he was doing housework against the closing, and I just thought that the smell was doing business.”

Bennett said that his house was destroyed in the explosion and lost most of his belongings.

“I thought I would die from the moment I opened my eyes in the morning until the bed at night.”

“Works like darkness and sounds are triggered.”

The jury also received news from the former postman Jonathan Roberts, who was on his tour on Clydach, when the explosion took place while passing by Mr. Davies.

The moment caught by CCTV was shown to the jury, and the smoke could appear instantly when the debris was flying from the building.

The court felt evidence in the statement of the owner of the Assembly Jeffery White, who said that no major work was done on the property before the incident.

He said the accident was about seven years old.

At the beginning of the investigation, Swansea and Neath Port Talbot’s senior coronary Aled Wyf Gruffydd said the jury proved how Mr. Davies died in the explosion and the conditions of this explosion “.

The investigation heard that three grandparents working in the construction sector had rented the single -bedroom end of the terrace property about four years before his death.

Wales and Wales and Western public services, which protect the gas network in the southwest of the UK, are represented during the investigation and the Health and Safety Manager is continuing.

Swansea Guildhall continues a week of investigation.