25 years ago

Five Dundee youths had to leap from a first-floor window after an explosion ripped through a bedroom. Alec Westwater (14) was trapped in his room at his home in Dunmore Street, Kirkton, with four friends when a canister of gas apparently exploded shortly before 10pm. His mother described the desperate attempts to reach the group as they were effectively locked in by a door that had no handle on the inside. The boys jumped 12 feet and landed on the ground below the window. All were taken to DRI for treatment.