TWO youths have been charged with manslaughter following the death of a 15-year-old boy who was left in a burning skip.
The two aged 15 and 16 years were arrested after Michael Temperley of Low Fell, Gateshead, was found suffering from severe burns in a skip in the town's Team Valley Industrial Estate on Monday night.
Workers at the Halfords store next to the scene tried to extinguish the flames and the boy was taken by paramedics to hospital.
He died in Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Gateshead the early hours of Tuesday morning.
The two youths have been released on conditional bail and will appear before Blaydon magistrates on Tuesday.
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