TWO men have been found guilty of the murder of Michael Griffiths in Fernhurst, and a third has been found guilty of his manslaughter.

The 58-year-old jewellery designer, who worked at John Nicholson's auctioneers, was tortured in a burglary and firefighters found his body after being called to a blaze at his Old Glebe home in January 2013.

The house was set on fire to destroy the evidence.

At Hove Crown Court on Tuesday, Zac Cowdrey, 24, of Meadway, Staines, and Harvey Munford, 23, of Monks Way, Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex – who had both offered an alternative plea to manslaughter – were found guilty of murder.

Simon Penton, 43, of Markway, Sunbury-on Thames, was found guilty of manslaughter.

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