A man who stabbed a granddad to death at a caravan park where the pair were neighbours has been found guilty of murder.
Steven Baxter killed Simon Clark at Grove Caravan Park in Pendine, Carmarthenshire, where they both lived, on September 27 last year.
The 52-year-old knifeman stabbed his 54-year-old neighbour in the chest with the deep, fatal wound that penetrated his heart.
Mr Clark's body was found the following day, Wales Online reports.
Baxter was found hiding on Marros Beach in Carmarthenshire on October 27 - a month after the brutal attack.
He denied murder but a jury found him guilty after five hours and eight minutes of deliberations.
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His co-accused, 40-year-old Jeffrey Ward, who also lived at Pendine Caravan Park, was also accused of murder but was found not guilty by the jury.
The trial heard there had been a row between Mr Ward and Mr Clark after Mr Clark's girlfriend Sarah Stockwell had told him Mr Ward had glared at her as she arrived to visit earlier that day.
It later led to a tussle between the pair which "created a commotion" at the caravan park, the court heard.
Baxter claimed during his evidence that he tried to break it up because he did not want attention drawn to them as they had cannabis in their caravans.
He said Mr Ward went into his caravan to have an injured hand treated leaving Mr Clark standing by the garden gate waving two poles and "ranting."
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Baxter claimed he was stabbed in the forearm by one of the poles and he responded by striking out in a self-defence "reflex action" whilst holding a knife in his hand.
Mr Clark had been dead for some hours before he was discovered.
Baxter will be sentenced for murder tomorrow at 10.30am.
Julie Harris, 46, from Clydach Vale, has pleaded guilty to attempting to pervert the course of justice and will also be sentenced tomorrow.
