Heir to £230,000,000 pie fortune guilty of murdering best friend

The heir to a pie company fortune has been found guilty of murdering his best friend on Christmas Eve by a jury at Cardiff Crown Court.

24-year-old Dylan Thomas, the grandson of pie company founder Sir Stanley Thomas, killed his friend William Bush, 23, on December 24 2023 at their home in Llandaff, Cardiff.

Thomas was found guilty on Thursday after a week-long trial at Cardiff Crown Court.

He had admitted manslaughter by diminished responsibility but denied murder ahead of the trial.

Sir Stanley Thomas, the founder of Peter’s Pies, whose net worth was estimated to be £230m in 2013, sat in court throughout the trial.

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