It is one year since the tragedy that occurred in Llandaff, Cardiff, in Wales. A crime that shocked the United Kingdom and that, over time, it became known was a story of a broken friendship and a multimillion-dollar inheritance. The protagonist, Dylan Thomas, a 24-year-old young man, heir to one of the largest fortunes in Waleslinked to the business empire of an iconic food brand, was a friend and roommate of William Bush. A relationship that ended in the worst way imaginable.
HELLO!A broken friendship
Dylan and William met at the private school Christ College Brecon, in south Wales. Since then, the friendship between them had been close, forged in the classrooms and reinforced by the bonds of coexistence that united them in the house they shared in Llandaff. At 23 years old, Dylan had decided to go live with his girlfriend, Ella Jeffries; reason why the tension between the two friends.
The one on Christmas Eve 2023, Dylan He attacked his friend and roommate with two knivescausing 37 injuries. Most of the cuts were concentrated in the neck area, where Dylan severed a major artery, causing William to bleed to death within minutes.
© galespoliceHe claimed it was self-defense.
When questioned by the police, Dylan explained that he had acted in self-defenseclaiming that William had had an “episode” of madness. According to the Daily Mail newspaper, prosecutor Greg Bull described the crime as “a frenzied attack.” In fact, in the months before the murder, Dylan had attempted to do strange things, such as climbing the fence of Buckingham Palace in London, which resulted in his arrest.
© Getty ImagesArrested for climbing Buckingham Palace fence
It is this last episode, in which he also ended up arrested, in which tried to enter the royal residencewas also presented as an indication of the psychosis he suffered. At the trial, which still remains without any final rulingthe court heard testimony from William’s family and friends, who described him as a calm, loyal man with no violent inclinations. “He was Dylan’s best friend, and Dylan was his only friend,” the defense attorney commented, referring to the relationship between the two. The figure of Dylan, a lonely young man, began to emerge before the eyes of the jury, while the psychopathology of his behavior became the central axis of the defense.