‘Bedroom boffin’ faces jail after he blew himself up with homemade explosives

A obsessed amateur chemist who blew himself up with the explosives he made in his home laboratory is facing jail. Matthew Haydon, 48, who lived with his mother, was fascinated by chemical reactions and would spend hours watching them on YouTube. When social services took his daughter away he converted her bedroom in Loring Road, Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire into a laboratory, much to his mother’s displeasure. Haydon had written to Jim’ll Fix It as a child asking if he could throw…