{"id":418211,"date":"2026-02-10T15:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/418211\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T15:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:25:07","slug":"barnsley-man-who-laid-home-alone-style-traps-at-drug-den-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/418211\/","title":{"rendered":"Barnsley man who laid &#8216;Home Alone&#8217; style traps at drug den jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man who rigged his house with &#8220;Home Alone-style&#8221; booby traps, including a flamethrower and tripwires, to protect his drugs enterprise has been jailed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ian Claughton, 60, &#8220;heavily fortified&#8221; three properties in Grimethorpe, Barnsley, with fishing wire, adapted crow-scarers and home-made pipe bombs to protect his cannabis growing operation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Claughton and his ex-wife Lesley, 59, who &#8220;assisted and encouraged&#8221; his criminality, were found guilty of drug and firearms offences following a trial at Doncaster Crown Court in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At Sheffield Crown Court on Tuesday, Ian Claughton was sentenced to seven years in jail, while Lesley was handed a 21-month sentence, suspended for two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who rigged his house with &#8220;Home Alone-style&#8221; booby traps, including a flamethrower and tripwires, to protect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-418211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}