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A drug dealer who was inspired by the film Home Alone to booby-trap his house has been sent to prison for seven years.
Ian Claughton rigged his home, in the former pit village of Grimethorpe in South Yorkshire, with tripwires and home-made pipe bombs in order to protect his drugs business from would-be intruders.
About 100 houses had to be evacuated in May 2024 as police searched three neighbouring houses connected to Claughton and his ex-wife Lesley Claughton.
They found a series of tr
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