Alison Hume inquiry: Hero of Stockline blast who was forced to say sorry to Alison’s parents

IT is just over six years since Brian Sweeney was honoured by the Queen for his leadership after a huge blast at a plastics factory in Glasgow.

He was just three months into a temporary job as Strathclyde’s firemaster when he was confronted with Scotland’s worst industrial disaster since Piper Alpha, with nine lives lost.

He received a Queen’s Fire Service Medal for his leadership over the Stockline Plastics explosion.