Kaydon Prior and Jason Curtis were sentenced to a minimum of 28 years and 22 years respectively for the murder of Harrison Tomkins.
A life sentence has been imposed on a “coercive and controlling” man who killed his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend by stabbing her in her bed, as well as his friend who supported the murder.
At Brighton Crown Court, Judge Jeremy Gold KC gave Kaydon Prior and Jason Curtis minimum sentences of 28 years and 22 years, respectively, for killing Harrison Tomkins while he was in bed.
When Prior, 23, and Curtis, 22, learned that Alicia Parrin had gone out with another man, they barged into her Crawley flat.
Then, at roughly 5.30 am on August 13, 2023, Prior leaped onto Mr. Tomkins, 25, stabbing him ten times in the chest, legs, and back with a hunting knife in what was described as a “brutal and frenzied” attack.
By helping Prior, Curtis “played a full part,” according to Judge Gold, in the events leading up to this “dreadful crime.”
A trial at Chichester Crown Court resulted in unanimous convictions finding them both guilty of Mr. Tomkins’ murder.
“This was a carefully planned and executed killing of a young man who neither of you knew or had any sensible reason to want to hurt, let alone kill,” Judge Gold said as she sentenced the two on Tuesday.
“This brutal murder was born out of utter obsession by you, Kaydon Prior, with Alicia Parrin. She was understandably exhausted by your increasingly coercive and controlling behaviour over the last few weeks of your relationship.
“She made it clear to you she no longer put up with it, you could not and would not accept that simple fact.”
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