A man is on trial after prosecutors say he blew up his childhood home because he believed he had been excluded from a will. The court hears that multiple gas cylinders were placed inside the property, including in the front living room, the kitchen, and one of the bedrooms. Prosecutors allege the defendant carried out the act after reaching that belief about the will, with the court told he expressed a motive consistent with preventing anyone else from benefiting from the property. One account of the evidence includes the statement attributed to the man: “If I can’t have it, no one can.”
The articles do not provide further detail on the outcome of the trial, the identity of the parties involved, or whether any injuries were reported. The focus across the sources is the claimed motivation tied to the will and the method described in court, specifically the placement of gas cylinders across rooms in the home. The case is presented as a court hearing in which the prosecution sets out its version of events.
