A SECURITY guard who tried to bludgeon a man to death at a disused North Yorkshire RAF base has been convicted of attempted murder and murder.
For just over three weeks, a Carlisle Crown Court jury was shown damning evidence of 20-year-old Jack Crawley's hidden life - and his dark fascination with a serial killer and determination to violently target gay men.
As the jury returned the guilty verdicts, Crawley showed no emotion, staring impassively ahead as the judge told him he will be sentenced on Wednesday morning.
It took the jury eight hours and 22 minutes to deliver the verdicts.
Crawley's co-defendant, 20-year-old Marcus Goodfellow, was cleared of knowing anything about the killing of Paul Taylor as he travelled in his car with Crawley on October 19 last year, the day after the killing.
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