Overview
- Officials confirmed the 64-year-old died on 28 February 2026 at category C HMP Rochester in Kent.
- The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman has opened an inquiry into the circumstances of his death.
- Blasio was serving a 20-year sentence after a retrial found him guilty of causing an explosion likely to endanger life and of fraud by false representation.
- Court findings said he opened a gas valve and ignited the gas in his Home in Style showroom in March 2017, a blast that injured 81 people and damaged or destroyed about 63 properties.
- His wife posted on X that he "lost his fight to cancer" and reiterated her claim that he was innocent.