Told you next time you leave, house goes up with me. Boom': Chilling message sent by man jailed for 10 years for killing boy, 2, in huge gas blast

A man who blew up his house when his girlfriend left him, killing his neighbours’ two-year-old boy, was jailed for ten years yesterday.
Unemployed joiner Andrew Partington, 28, sawed through gas pipes then sent his girlfriend a text message warning ‘gas pipe cut, already filled up, boom’.
The following morning, Partington lit a cigarette, igniting the gas and causing a huge explosion. Toddler Jamie Heaton, who had been watching his favourite television programme, Peppa Pig, was killed next door.
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Jamie Heaton, two, who died in an explosion in Oldham when his house went up in a massive gas blast

Andrew Partington (right) was jailed for 10 years over the death of toddler Jamie Heaton (left)

His distraught mother Michelle escaped injury only because she was outside hanging up washing.
A passing policeman crawled through the rubble to reach Jamie, but he had already been crushed to death.

 

Partington was pulled from the wreckage of his house in Shaw, near Oldham, with 40 per cent burns and a broken back. He admitted manslaughter.
Jailing him at Manchester Crown Court, Mr Justice Hamblen said his reckless actions had in effect produced ‘a bomb that you created and detonated’, killing Jamie and wrecking the lives of his parents.
Afterwards Mrs Heaton and her car salesman husband Kenny, 37, said: ‘No sentence imposed would ever bring Jamie back nor would it ever give us satisfaction.’

The court heard Andrew Partington (left) and Tanya Williams had a stormy relationship

Aerial picture of the scene of the gas explosion which flattened three houses in the Shaw area of Oldham, Greater Manchester

Emergency workers at the scene of the gas blast in the Shaw area of Oldham, Greater Manchester

Jamie, who had been diagnosed with autism, should have been at nursery on the day of the blast last June but was poorly. Mrs Heaton, 32, stayed home from her job at Boots to look after him.
Hard-drinking Partington and his girlfriend, Tanya Williams, had moved in four months before the blast.
He regularly beat her and shortly before the explosion had been given a conditional discharge for common assault. Miss Williams, 28, has five children, the two youngest by Partington, who has a daughter from a previous relationship.
On June 25, the court heard, Partington had been drinking heavily and rowed with Miss Williams, calling her ‘fat’ and ‘ugly’.
She left, taking the children. Partington bombarded her with angry messages from his BlackBerry phone.
One read: ‘Told you next time you leave me, house goes up with me. You left your kids with no Dad, no home, goodbye, boom, gas pipe cut, already filled up, boom.’ He also called her a ‘bitch’ and said he loved his two sons by her.
Partington, who had cut the gas pipes in two places, then apparently fell into a drunken stupor.

The cut gas pipe in the house of Andrew Partington that caused the blast

Andrew Partington was sentenced to 10 years for manslaughter and destruction of property

Tragic: Michelle Heaton, the mother of Jamie Heaton, two, with a picture of her son

Jamie had been watching television in the lounge with his mother doing housework and his father out at work

The following morning, the defence claimed, he changed his mind, turned off the gas and opened windows.
National Grid was alerted to the leak after a neighbour reporting a smell of gas at 10.42am. Engineers were minutes from the scene when at about 11.15am Partington lit a cigarette, causing the catastrophic explosion that police said left the street ‘like a war zone’. It was ‘sheer luck’ that no one else was killed or seriously injured.
The external wall of Partington’s end-of-terrace home was torn from its foundations, slamming into the Heatons’ house, from which it was separated by an alley, and causing the roof to cave in.
Mrs Heaton told how her first thought was that her son would be terrified by the deafening blast.
‘I knew Jamie would be frightened, but I couldn’t get back in the back door,’ she said.
The Heatons – who also have a son, Jack, nine, and daughter Jodie, five – said of Jamie: ‘He was a beautiful, healthy and loving little boy who was full of life. Above all he was great fun.

Kenny and Michelle Heaton arrive at Manchester Crown Court for the trial of gas fitter Andrew Partington. The couple's son Jamie died in a gas explosion at their home in Oldham last year

‘The fact that [the explosion] was deliberate and totally avoidable has made the grieving ever harder to manage.’
They have set up a charity, Jamie’s Something Special, in his memory to raise funds for children’s play equipment.
Several other families lost homes and possessions in the blast, which damaged seven houses beyond repair and left an estimated bill of £1.2million.
A fund to support victims of the blast has so far paid out £207,000 to 91 households.
Partington admitted eight charges of destroying houses and received concurrent seven-year sentences for each.

Is there a black sheep in your family's past? Now you can find out as old crime records are put online

One strangled babies, another drowned his wives in the bath, and then there was a nurse who poisoned seven of her patients.
They were hanged a century ago – and now their criminal records are among millions put online to help Britons who might want to find the ‘black sheep’ in their family history.
For the first time, a national archive of the records will be publicly available.

It follows the separate discovery of the earliest mugshots, taken 150 years ago and revealed in the Daily Mail last week.
The project allows people to search for villains lurking in their family tree.

 

More than 2.5million records from 1770 to 1934 have been put online, chronicling the fates of fraudsters, counterfeiters, thieves, murderers and drunkards.
Examples include baby killer Amelia Dyer, a Victorian who strangled up to 400 adopted infants with dress tape in the 1880s.
Catherine Wilson, a Lincolnshire nurse, gave elderly patients poison after asking them to leave her money in their wills in the 1860s.

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A bigamist and serial killer named George Joseph Smith – dubbed the ‘brides in the bath’ killer – is among the first examples of a crime solved by forensic pathology, in 1915.
The collection covers England and Wales, and is published by family history website findmypast.co.uk and The National Archives. Debra Chatfield, a historian at findmypast.co.uk, said: ‘These records provide an amazing opportunity to trace any villains and  victims in your own family. We have  painstakingly published registers containing mugshots of habitual drunks with incredible descriptions of appearance, demeanour and identifying marks.
‘The newspaper articles available provide unparalleled detail and show how crimes were reported when they were committed.’
The collection contains scanned images of court documents and letters of appeal written by friends and relatives begging for clemency, usually in vain.
Justice was brutal and often led to the hangman’s noose.
There are also Edwardian ASBOs,  banning ne’er-do-wells from pubs – including one served on a 78-year-old ‘habitually drunken’ woman.
People can search for ancestors whose crimes caused them to be sent to Australia or housed on prison ships known as ‘hulks’.
Paul Carter, a records specialist at The National Archives, said the files ‘record the intimate details of hundreds of thousands of people’.
To find villains in your family, type your surname into the ‘crime  and punishment’ section of the  findmypast.co.uk website.
All criminal records in that name from 1770 to 1934 will be listed, along with National Archives data.
Crimes are catalogued by name, age, occupation, court date, area, victim’s name and sentence.
A further click of the mouse takes you to scanned images of the original handwritten records.

Cheaper BA flights if you only have hand luggage as airline takes on budget rivals

British Airways is to follow budget airline rivals by charging less if passengers travel with just hand luggage. 
The airline said the cheaper fares – which will initially be offered on flights from Gatwick Airport to five European destinations – will give passengers ‘more choice’.
Holidaymakers who travel with luggage they wish to check in will not pay more to compensate for the lower ‘hand baggage only’ fares, the airline said.

British Airways will offer customers 'more choice' when they travel by charging less for hand luggage

It is a move likely to be viewed as an attempt by BA to compete with low-cost airlines such as Ryanair and Easyjet that charge more for passengers to check in baggage, effctively charging less for those who don’t.
Peter Simpson, director of Gatwick for British Airways, said: ‘The introduction of our hand baggage only fare is all about giving our customers more freedom to choose the kind of flying they want.

 

‘Many British Airways customers on Gatwick short-haul breaks choose not to check in a bag as they’re already taking advantage of our generous two-bag hand luggage policy. 

BA plan on taking on their budget rivals, such as Easyjet, that encourage only taking hand luggage

‘Those who still want to check in a bag will simply pay the same price they do now.’
The flag-carrier said it will initially offer a discount for those travelling with just hand luggage from Gatwick to five short-haul destinations including Amsterdam, Dubrovnik, Jersey, Tunis and Turin in Europe.
The size of discounts will vary depending on the route but will range from £9 to £15.
Passengers can start benefitting from the lower fares from Tuesday (February 26), with starting prices ranging from £39 one-way to Amsterdam to £69 one-way to Turin.
Bob Atkinson, a travel expert at Travelsupermarket.com, said it was a great opportunity for passengers to have the full ‘BA offering’ of food and reward points while being handed a ‘generous hand luggage allowance’. 
He said: ‘This is an interesting move for BA which is clearly looking at other ways to position its offering to price-sensitive customers.
‘However passengers who take up the offer to travel without checked luggage will still benefit from a generous hand luggage allowance plus free on board food and drink.’
The move comes after Dutch airline KLM decided to begin charging customers who check in luggage on short-haul flights.

Revealed: The jobless mother of 11 getting a six-bed home on the council owns a HORSE (and you're paying £200 a month for its paddock fees, food and vets' bills)

axpayers have already paid for the upkeep of her 11 children and for a purpose-built six-bedroom home to move them all into.
And yesterday it emerged the state is also providing jobless Heather Frost with enough money and time to keep her own horse – something that many families can only dream of.
Miss Frost, 37, apparently has the means to keep a grey mare called Annie, which she bought last year.
The paddock fees, food and vet bills are estimated to total around £200 per month.

Benefits: Heather Frost, left, does not work but makes enough money to keep a horse named Annie, right

Annie lives in a field around a mile from the current Frost family home in Churchdown, Gloucestershire.
A worker at the paddock claimed Miss Frost had recently arranged to buy two more horses but the deal fell through at the last minute.

 

She is understood to pay £65 a month in paddock fees and had negotiated a deal last month where she could stable a total of three horses for £175.
The worker said Miss Frost bought Annie ‘about eight months ago’, adding: ‘Horses are expensive. I know, I’ve had them all my life.

'Nightmare': The jobless 36-year-old currently lives in two houses (pictured) in Churchdown, near Gloucester which were knocked through five years ago to accommodate her massive brood

Rubbish strewn: The back of the properties in Churchdown, Gloucester, where Heather Frost is living with 11 children. She is being given a 6 bedroom custom made council house in nearby Tewkesbury to accommodate her large brood

‘Annie has breathing difficulties, so the vet has to come out quite often. They must spend at least £200 a month on her.
'They were going to buy two more horses recently, but that deal fell through. It’s sickening to think that she can afford what most people would consider a luxury at the expense of the British taxpayer.’
Miss Frost refused to discuss the horse yesterday – but her 16-year-old daughter Angel took to a local website to defend her mother after it was revealed the family were being handed a six-bedroom, three-bathroom newly built home worth £400,000.
She wrote: ‘My mum has nothing to be ashamed about.’
At the family’s current home which comprises two terraced houses with a connecting door, her mother said: ‘I will not talk about my horse or my kids.’

Deal: Tewkesbury Borough Council bosses have sold a plot of land in Northway Lane, Tewkesbury, for around £210,000. In return, the housing provider is building the six-bed super-house along with 12 other homes

Grand designs: The plans for the family's plush new eco-home which the council has agreed to build

She lives with her children  Sophie, 22, Toby, 19, Daisy, 18, Angel, 16, Jay, 14, Chloe, 13, Paige, 12, Emily, ten, Beth, nine, Ruby, seven and Tilly, two.
But her local council has arranged for a 1,850sq ft property to be built on a new housing development in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, which is due for completion in June. The eco-home features the latest in energy-saving design.
Frost also lives with partner Jake, who the neighbours say works as a lorry driver, Sophie’s two-year-old daughter Ashley, and Toby’s son Tyler.
The family’s neighbours were yesterday outraged by the revelation that Miss Frost has enough cash to keep a horse.
One said: ‘It’s disgusting. Owning a horse should be a luxury reserved for people who work and can pay for it themselves.
‘I don’t pay my taxes so some jobless baby machine can have a horse.’
A commentator using the name ‘Charlie76’ wrote on a Gloucestershire news website: ‘What an absolute joke! How can she afford horses? I can barely afford my dog and I work and have kids. Bloody disgraceful!’

The six-bedroom house in Tewkesbury half way through construction for the large family

And a spokesman for the TaxPayers’ Alliance said: ‘Benefits are there to provide a safety net when people fall on tough times, not fund an enormous house and a pony.
‘Many families are struggling even to pay their daily bills and afford a decent home for their own family, so they will find it staggering if they are paying to stable someone else’s horse.
‘Welfare should not pay for claimants to enjoy a lifestyle most hard-pressed taxpayers cannot afford themselves.’
Miss Frost’s daughter Angel defended her mother on a local news website.

Spacious: The house comes with six bedrooms, two living rooms, a kitchen/ diner and two bathrooms

Money-saver: The new house will boast an energy efficient design to help keep Heather's energy bills down

Controversial: Councillor Derek Davies said it was a 'great example' of how the council works with housing providers to ensure affordable housing is provided for all our residents' housing needs

Using the name ‘AngelFrost’, she wrote: ‘Heather is my mum, she doesn’t work, but my father did, and he left, so why are you blaming my mother?
‘How could she possibly work with 11 children, you people have no right judging us. My mum has nothing to be ashamed about, the house we are mooving (sic) to in is smaller then the one we live in now, so its far from a mansion.
‘All us kids are as happy as could be, full of joy and full  of life, and as for thinking we are all going to be following in her foot steps (sic) you can think again.’
She said she was proud of her mother and blamed her absent father for failing to support the family.

'Womb like a clown car': Frost (pictured with one of her sons) first fell pregnant at just 14, to a 23-year-old boyfriend who ended up in prison, and has gone on to have ten more children

What a state: Frost's current home is blighted by a bashed-up minibus, two battered cars and a skip

As Cara Delevingne hits the Burberry runway in her umpteenth show for London Fashion Week, FEMAIL tracks the Queen of the Catwalk's best LFW moments

Looking very much the ethereal English rose, Cara Delevingne encapsulated all that is Burberry while walking for the British fashion house today.
You'd have never guessed she'd been walking endless shows and out partying afterwards every day during this London Fashion Week as she walked on, fresher than a daisy, in a cheeky rubber pencil skirt and heart top.
She also modelled a black belted trench and black tube dress, with metal belting accents.

 

 

Metallic accessories

Burberry goes risqué

Tube dress is toughened

 

 

 

 

Cara showing us all the expressions she can do in the Burberry Beauty Booth and not quite so glamorous arriving at the show

Featuring in 11 New York Fashion Week shows Cara's now approaching her seventh show in London, and there's still a whole day left.
Cara appeared at Matthew Williamson’s show last night at the Royal Opera House in three different outfits and opened for Topshop Unique where she modeled two looks.
She also closed for Mulberry in a ladylike ensemble of long leather opera gloves and fur.
Saturday saw her walking for Sibling and Issa - then partying with Rihanna and fellow model Jourdan Dunn at trendy London night spot, The Box.

 

With influential fashion website Who What Wear claiming she ‘can do no wrong’, and Sam Cameron’s sister Emily Sheffield, the deputy editor of Vogue, declaring Cara looked like ‘the super [model] she is’, it was certainly a big weekend for the young British model of the moment.
As Femail's Nicole Mowbray said, not since Kate Moss has the fashion world been so captivated by a single model.
We've not seen everything this elfin party girl has to offer yet.

 

Issa's girl: Model of the moment Cara owned the catwalk despite being shrouded in voluminous Navajo cape and feathered, wide-brimmed hat

 

Cara walks for Sister By Sibling

She walked for Jason Wu

Cara for Peter Pilotto

 

 

 

On the catwalk during the Peter Pilotto Autumn/Winter 2013 London Fashion Week show

 

Cara dazzles for Topshop Unique

Rocking knife pleats at Matthew Williamson

Metallic magic at Williamson again

 

 

 

Cara shows off her Peter Pilotto beauty look, left, and right, rocking fetish at Topshop Unique

 

 

 

Cutie: Cara Delevingne walks the Runway at the Sister by Sibling show

 

 

Cara closed the show for Mulberry, left, and right, rocking stripes and a sporty look at Matthew Williamson

He’s one cool kid: Romeo Beckham shows off his model style as he spends the day with Harper and Cruz

He made his modelling debut for Burberry back in December of last year.
And proving he's always photo-ready Romeo Beckham stepped out looking super cool in Paris on Tuesday.
The 10-year-old showed his natural style and growing swagger as he spent time with his younger brother Cruz and little sister Harper.

 

Cool dude: Romeo Beckham shows off his style as he stepped out in Paris on Tuesday

Treating the Parisian streets as his catwalk the son of Victoria and David Beckham looked like a budding fashionista in a trendy padded black jacket.

 

He teamed the warm item with a pair of slim-fit faded black jeans and opting for comfort yet style he wore a pair of black Nike trainers with a bright green sole.
However it was his Wayfarer style sunglasses and cool quiff that turned him from a young lad to a style icon.

 

Family fun: Romeo was seen exploring the French capital with Harper and Cruz

 

 

Strut: Romeo wouldn't have looked out of place on the catwalk in his jeans and padded jacket

Never too far behind on the style stakes Cruz, who has always been a fan of fancy dress, wore a great skeleton themed outfit. 
Not only did he wear a jumper with a the print of a skeleton’s torso on it but he also wore a pair of black plimsolls with skeleton feet on it.
Like his older brother he wore his hair in a quiff, although it wasn’t to quite the same proportion.

 

Smiley: Both Romeo and Cruz grinned during their trip while Harper looked like she was taking a little nap

 

 

 

Nothing scary about that: Cruz looked great in his skeleton themed outfit which included skeleton feet shoes

Meanwhile their little sister Harper looked tuckered out as she fell asleep in a pram pushed by a child minder.
Wearing her favourite fur trimmed coat and a pair of skinny jeans, she also looked super stylish.
As the younger three Beckham children explored the city which their dad will be calling home for the next five months, Brooklyn was spotted training with David at the Paris Saint-Germain training ground. 

 

Celebration: The family are in Paris so they can all be together for Cruz's birthday on Wednesday

 

Second home: Paris will become a second home to the family for the next five months while David plays for PSG

The famous clan arrived in the French capital on Monday, where they will celebrate Cruz’s birthday on Wednesday.
It was the first time the world-famous clan have been spotted all together in the French capital and it’s believed they headed to the £14,500-a-night Imperial Suite at the Bristol Hotel hotel on the Faubourg Saint-Honore, where the sportsman will be staying throughout his stint with Paris St Germain.
Arriving just before 9pm, an onlooker described the scene: 'It was as if the President of the United States had come to town. The whole place was swarming with security units.'

 

Working hard: While the younger members of the family had fun, Brooklyn spent time football training with David

 

Romeo was unveiled as the newest star of Burberry's Spring/Summer 2013 campaign, making his modelling debut alongside Edie Campbell and Cara Delevingne in Decemeber.
Following his mother into the fashion world, the youngster was hand-picked by the British label's Chief Creative Officer, Christopher Bailey, for his first big break.

 

Excited: Victoria tweeted a picture of her husband outside a huge welcome sign for him