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Two men found guilty of murdering ex-girlfriend’s new lover in bed

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A man who stabbed his ex-girlfriend’s new lover to death in her bed, and his friend who encouraged the attack, have both been found guilty of murder.

Kaydon Prior knifed Harrison Tomkins, 25, in the chest, legs and back with a hunting knife in a “brutal and frenzied” attack in Crawley, on August 13 2023.

His friend Jason Curtis, 22, encouraged and assisted Prior in the murder.

During a trial at Chichester Crown Court, jurors heard Prior, 23, was a “jealous and controlling” man who stormed into Alicia Parrin’s

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