First picture of Leigh Park killer Kevin Batchelor found guilty of George Allison stab murder

Batchelor, 26, was convicted today at Winchester Crown Court of stabbing his 21-year-old friend George Allison to death in Leigh Park last year.

The pair had been at a barbecue together in Tichborne Grove on May 23 when they argued and Batchelor struck a fatal blow.

Batchelor, of East Hill, Camborne, Cornwall, denied murder and said he was acting in self-defence.

He will be sentenced at the same court on June 16 and was remanded into custody.

FULL STORY: Kevin Batchelor guilty of murdering friend George Allison in stabbing

Barry Baker, 39, of Oracle Drive, Widley, was found guilty of assisting an offender by disposing of the knife in a storm drain near The Swallow pub, in Dunsbury Way, Leigh Park.

The killer’s brother Hayley Batchelor, 34, was also convicted of assisting an offender, having claimed she did not know she was helping cover up a murder when she washed her brother’s clothes at her home in Highwood Lawn in Leigh Park.

The killer had cycled to her home bare-chested after the stabbing.

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