Losing Paul: Paul Fennessy's mother battles against the system

By Daniel Burdon and Alexandra Back
Updated April 24 2018 - 10:40pm, first published January 23 2018 - 11:37am

Ann Finlay was reading in bed when she heard the explosion, and then her son, Paul, screaming from the burns. It was a late September night in 2009, and Paul Fennessy was out in the shed, trying to light a cigarette from a barbecue gas bottle, when it exploded in his face.

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