A seven-year-old boy who tragically died in an explosion at his home was laid to rest in a coffin draped with Marvel comic characters on the day a man appeared in court charged with his manslaughter . Archie York died when a huge blast ripped through houses on Violet Close in Benwell, Newcastle, on October 16. On the same day as he was buried, Reece Galbraith, 33, denied the manslaughter of Archie and Jason “Jay” Laws, 35, who also died in the explosion in the early hours of the morning.