Heir to $292M pie fortune made chilling online search before alleged frenzied stabbing of roommate: court
The heir to a $292 million pie fortune brutally murdered his only friend on Christmas Eve in the UK — and made grisly internet searches while plotting the twisted attack, according to reports.Dylan Thomas, 24, searched “anatomy of the neck” just before allegedly ambushing his unsuspecting roommate and friend, William Bush, 23, who was planning on moving in with a girlfriend, it was revealed at his trial on Wednesday, according to The US Sun.The alleged murderer is the heir to the business empire of his grandfather Sir Gilbert Stanley Thomas, which includes the vaunted Peter’s Pies.
The British food giant is worth an estimated $292 million.On Christmas Eve 2023, Thomas told his friend, whom he met in primary school 10 years earlier, that he needed to see him prior to the pair going home for Christmas, The Sun reported.Thomas coaxed Bush into his bedroom and stabbed him in the back of the neck with either a lock knife or a flick knife in a “frenzied attack,” in Cardiff, the court heard, according to the outlet.Bush fled for his life leaking blood down two flights of stairs of their shared home, through the kitchen, and out to the patio as his assailant followed in pursuit, prosecutors alleged in court, according to the report.On the patio, Bush was repeatedly stabbed in the head and the chest, and would finally succumb to a “fatal laceration to an artery in the neck,” according to prosecutor Greg Bull, The Sun reported.Bush sustained a total of 37 stab wounds, including 13 to the front and side of his neck, according to the BBC.“Screams of horror” could be heard from the street during the attack, Bull told the court, The Independent reported.Bull suggested to jurors that a kitchen knife had been used for the final portion of the attack, according to that report.A video shown to the jury shows officers confronting a blood-covered Thomas on that fateful Christmas Eve after receiving calls.In the video, police can be heard asking Thomas, “Where’s...