Blast Victim Gas Leak Probe
- May
- 17
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Detectives investigating the blast in Stanley Road, Harrow, north London, on May 7 think it was caused by a gas leak, Scotland Yard said.
Police had linked the explosion to a substance poured through the letterbox of number 21 but this has now been ruled out as a cause.
Earlier, the sister of bomb blast victim Charlotte Anderson, 17, claimed her sibling was the target of girl thugs who were trying to “drive her out of London”.
The teen may have been scarred for life and will need skin grafts to repair burns caused by the blast, which killed a neighbour and demolished three houses.
She remains in hospital following the explosion last Wednesday, where her family remain at her bedside.
Charlotte’s older sister, Gemma Nesbitt, 21, said Charlotte had been living in fear of a girl gang who had beaten her up once before.
At first it was believed the explosion at her flat in Harrow, north London, may have been organised on purpose by the gang of girls in a feud over a boy.
Gemma said at the time: “Charlotte is very poorly and is sleeping a lot but hopefully she is on the mend. She said the lasses who attacked her are from college and that they have beaten her up once before.”
Her mother Elaine Leonard, 41, who has travelled from her home in Cramlington, Northumberland, to be by her side said Charlotte had been studying hard to gain a qualification in childcare and had been planning to go to university.
She said: “She’ll turn 18 in a few weeks. She should have been having the time of her life, but instead she could still be in hospital.
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“I used to live in Cowgate, in Newcastle, and thought that was bad, but I can’t believe what things are like in London,” she added.
“You hear about it on the telly, but you can’t believe it until you see it with your own eyes and it happens to you or your family.”
The explosion ripped through the Victorian terrace at 9.30pm, flattening three homes and killing Emad Qureshi, 26, who was crushed by falling rubble. Charlotte was dragged from the debris by a passer-by.
The former pupil of Balliol Primary School, Longbenton, Tyne and Wear, left the North East eight years ago and was placed in foster care in London.
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