Man, 20, guilty of murdering army veteran and ‘much-loved father’ he met on Grindr

A 20-year-old man has been found guilty of bludgeoning an army veteran he met though Grindr to death with a hammer, as well as the attempted murder of another man he met on the gay app.

On Monday (21 October), following a trial at Carlisle Crown Court, Jack Crawley, of no fixed address, was found guilty of murdering 56-year-old Paul Taylor who went missing almost exactly a year ago and whose remains were found buried in a shallow grave in woodland months later.

Security guard Crawley was also found guilty of attempted murder after trying to kill another man in North Yorkshire in January, in a similar attack.

The court heard that Taylor left home in Annan, Scotland, where he lived with his wife Maria, on 17 October 2023 and

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