A convicted conman has been found guilty of murdering his lover, a married father-of-three, at a hotel.

Glenn Rycroft, 33, denied killing Gareth MacDonald, 30, from Prestatyn, Denbighshire, in a Travelodge room near London on 14 September 2007.

Rycroft, originally from Salford but now from Flintshire, hit him over the head twice with a fire extinguisher.

Judge Timothy Pontius, sitting at the Old Bailey, is expected to sentence him on Friday.

Mr MacDonald, a 30-year-old father of three, had left his wife and children to mo...[read more]

  

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