- Dylan Thomas stabbed William Bush in the rented home they shared last year
The heir to a £230million pie company fortune has been found guilty of murdering his best friend on Christmas Eve.
Dylan Thomas, 23, stabbed William Bush, also 23, in the rented home the pair shared on December 24 last year.
Mr Bush was found dead in a newly-built house, owned by Thomas’s grandfather Sir Stanley Thomas, a Welsh tycoon behind a business empire including Peter’s Pies.
Thomas was found guilty today after a week-long trial at Cardiff Crown Court.
He had admitted manslaughter by diminished responsibility but denied murder ahead of the trial.
Sir Thomas, the founder of Peter’s Pies, whose net worth was estimated to be £230m in 2013, sat in court throughout the trial.
Trial judge Mrs Justice Steyn said she would pass sentence on December 16, and Thomas was remanded into custody.
Dylan Thomas, 24, (pictured) the heir to a pie company fortune, has been found guilty of murdering his best friend on Christmas Eve
William Bush, 23, (pictured) was stabbed to death by his best friend on Christmas Eve
Mr Bush was about to move out of the shared house where he lived with Thomas into a home with his girlfriend Ella Jeffries
Emergency services at the scene of the stabbing near to Llandaff Cathedral
Flowers left outside of the newly-built house in Cardiff where Mr Bush was killed
Cardiff Crown Court was previously told that ‘screams of horror’ could be heard from the street coming from the house that night.
Thomas, who is being treated for schizophrenia, had argued the incident was manslaughter by means of diminished responsibility.
But the Crown, who accept Thomas is ‘mentally unwell’, said he had planned the attack, having searched for the anatomy of the neck ahead of the incident.