‘I blew myself up recreating an experiment I saw on YouTube’

An amateur chemist turned his daughter’s room into a laboratory and blew himself up trying to copy an experiment he had seen on YouTube, a court heard. Matthew Haydon, 48, set up the lab in at the house he shared with his mother in Loring Road, Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire. He created hexamethylene triperoxide diamine (HMTD) which detonated in the four bedroom house, smashing windows and leaving him with permanent injuries, the Old Bailey heard. Haydon, who has ADHD, accepts causing the…