A son flew into a rage and launched a fatal attack on his own father after a row about pigs. Tony Thomas kicked and stamped on his dad Dafydd while wearing steel toe capped boots.
The 45-year-old accepted that he violently attacked Dafydd but had denied his actions resulted in the subsequent death of the 65-year-old retiree. However today jurors unanimously decided that Thomas, who has a schizoaffective disorder and believes he played a crucial part in the fight against coronavirus, was guilty of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
NorthWalesLive reports that Mold Crown Court had previously heard how the defendant became enraged following the dispute over a shipment of pigs coming to the family farm in Gwynedd. He dragged his dad from a pickup on the driveway of his father's house and launched the fatal attack. He claimed that his father, a former Gwynedd Environmental Waste Services director, was still alive when he left him in the road.
