Alcoholic stabbed lover to death

An alcoholic who stabbed his gay lover to death at his Cumbrian home has been jailed for life.

Gary Bowes, 43, plunged a kitchen knife into the chest of Paul Taylor in his living room in Penrith Street, Barrow, on 31 January.

The single blow penetrated the 46-year-old's heart and he died at the scene, Preston Crown Court heard.

Bowes was convicted of murder and ordered to serve a minimum of 13 years in prison before parole.

The jury heard that both men were alcoholics and had been drinking before the fatal attack.

Bowes claimed to police that he had no recollection of what had happened in his living room but prosecution barristers at the trial argued he had known what he was doing.