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Run for your lives! CCTV captures moment drinker with a CHAINSAW storms into pub and attacks customers Drinkers were forced to flee for their lives when a drug-fuelled maniac burst into their pub and lunged at them with a chainsaw just minutes after he was thrown out for smoking. Dean Dinnen, 24, charged into The Endyke pub in Hull, armed with the petrol-driven chainsaw to exact revenge on a fellow customer who forced him to put out his cigarette. As he marched up to the door of the pub with the chainsaw running he turned and jabbed it towards passer-by...

Two-year-old Indonesian boy Ardi Rizal puffs on a cigarette in the yard of his family home in Sumatra. The chain-smoking toddler has cut back to 15 cigarettes a day thanks to "therapy focused on playing", a child welfare official has said. (AFP/Ahmad Naafi/SRIWIJAYA POST/File)

<p>When a convicted three-time murderer passes out of this life, there's typically not a lot of mourning.</p> <p>There's some, though, and the other day, Jerry Thompson's widow, Jackie Thompson, sat on the sofa of her modest Eastside home, alternately planning the funeral, choking back tears and chain-smoking generic cigarettes, extra-long ultra-lights. Usually a pack a day is enough for her, but this week she has gone through twice that.</p>