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Llandaff murder: Pie fortune heir jailed for killing best friend

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Dylan Thomas , 24 , stabbed William Bush , 23 , 37 times on Christmas Eve .

He is grandson of Sir Stanley Thomas , who made his fortune with his brother in the family firm Peter's Pies .

Thomas admitted manslaughter but denied murder but was found guilty of murder in November .

Judge Karen Steyn described the murder as a "sustained and ferocious knife attack".

Thomas family company launched as Thomas Pies in the 1950s , selling sausage rolls, pies and pasties.

In the 1970s it became Peter's Pies , and is now known as Peter's Food , based in Bedwas in Caerphilly county .

The late Stan Thomas passed on the company to his sons Stan junior and Peter , who died in 1988 .

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