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Nightclub reveller guilty of ‘knife rampage’ murder

Source: PA Archive

A nightclub reveller who went on a “knife rampage” leaving one man dead and four others injured has been convicted of murder.

Jake Hill, 25, stabbed five people in a matter of seconds outside the Eclipse nightclub in Bodmin, Cornwall, with a serrated hunting knife.

He had joined a fight between 15 revellers outside the club shortly after 3am on April 30 last year, was told.

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