Man who tried to cut off friend's head after stabbing him found GUILTY of murder
direct to your inboxA man who stabbed his friend to death and tried to cut his head off faces a life sentence after being found guilty of murder.Matthew Jones, 41, murdered 39-year-old William 'Willy' Phelan and 'abandoned' his body for weeks, before he was eventually found by police.The pair, who both suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, had become friends while they were being treated for mental illnesses in hospital.Jones went on to brutally murder Mr Phelan in his own home.Prosecutors could not say exactly when Jones killed Mr Phelan, only that it happened at the end of January 2018 - or the start of February that year.It was only weeks later, in March 2018, that Mr Phelan's body was discovered after police forced their way into his