© Licensed to London News Pictures. FILE PICTURE dated 24/02/2019 of house explosion. Today 23/03/2020 James Toogood has been jailed eight and a half years and Laura Hawkins has been jailed for 15 months. James Toogood, age 36 was found guilty at Bristol Crown Court of damaging property being reckless as to whether life was endangered when there was an explosion which caused £260,000 worth of damage to a house in Whitchurch Lane, Bristol. James Toogood, who has 14 previous convictions including robbery, was using butane to make a powerful cannabis derivative known as "shatter". Toogood had admitted producing butane hash oil but said he was not doing so on February 23 2019, the date when there was an explosion at the house he was living in, a council flat at 264 Whitchurch Lane. Laura Hawkins, 39, was also found guilty of permitting a property to be used for the production of a controlled drug of Class B. At the house explosion in Whitchurch Lane, three people received minor injuries and were taken to hospital and much of the house was destroyed. A large trampoline was used to help some people escape. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP.