"Absolute hell" family's torment waiting for answers over fireworks warehouse death...
Oct 28, 2016, 08:13 AM
(Broadcast on BBC radio stations, October 2016)
"Absolute hell" -- that's how the family of a man killed in an explosion at a fireworks warehouse in Stafford two years ago have described waiting for answers.
On October 30th 2014 the SP Plastics building in Baswich was destroyed in a fire, claiming the lives of two fathers from Hednesford.
41-year-old Simon Hillier was volunteering in the shop as a pyrotechnics enthusiast and 57-year-old Stewart Staples was a customer.
Two years later there has been no inquest and police and prosecutors are still investigating the cause.
BBC Radio Stoke's EMMA THOMAS has met Simon's mother Lynn and brother Mark, who explained news of the disaster came from a neighbour...