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Church gardener killed in freak accident

Sunday 02 July 1995 23:02 BST
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Church gardener killed in freak accident

A 70-year-old church gardener died after he was turned into a human fireball in front of wedding guests. Arthur Handy was engulfed by flames at a church in South Shields, Tyne and Wear, when he turned on a shed light after filling a lawn mower with petrol to prepare the churchyard for the wedding photographs

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