A father-of-three has spoken out in anger after a dodgy roof tile narrowly missed his daughter's head.

Dylan Llewellyn, 49, an international sales manager of a software company from Picket Twenty Way, Andover, was sitting outside in his garden gazebo with his seven-year-old daughter at 1.30pm on May 24.

He told the Advertiser: "We were having a salad for lunch and I heard this almighty rumble. I thought my neighbour was chucking something in a wheelie bin.

"A hole got punched in the roof of the canvas gazebo and I saw this huge grey thing shoot behind my daughter's head.

"It shot off the roof and went through the gazebo, and landed on the grass. It was a foot behind her head.

"I thought I saw her get killed. She burst into tears and I was aware it just missed her. After the incident, she would not go back outside because was was terrified something else would fall off the house.

"My neighbour, Nick, came rushing out and could not believe the tile had fallen off the roof."

Dylan said his neighbour went up the ladder to make sure nothing else was broken and found more cracked ridge tiles.

He was told the broken tiles would be removed after four weeks but had been there for nine months.

"This is the second time a tile has come off our house. The last time it got caught in the gutter.

"The ridge tile is approximately 2cm thick, made of concrete and weighs around 1 kilo. It fell 35 feet at a velocity of 120 miles per hour."

Neighbour, Nick Reed, 31, a teacher from Picket Twenty Way, said: "I heard this big crack in the garden. There was a hole in the gazebo and a tile on the grass. The scaffolding was pressing on the ridge tiles, one had crack and half of it had slid down and just missed Dylan's daughter's head.

"Four more tiles came off in my hand. I rang Tag scaffolding company, who agreed the scaffolding should have come down months ago but they had not been given that work order.

"At 8am this morning, contractors came to remove the scaffolding. This was a dangerous situation and could have been avoided."

Group health and safety manager from Persimmon Homes, Bill Hardwick, said: "We are unable to comment at this moment in time."