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| Alison Morrison stabbing: Neighbour guilty of murder | Alison Morrison stabbing: Neighbour guilty of murder |
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| A man who repeatedly stabbed his neighbour after subjecting her to a campaign of harassment has been found guilty of her murder. | A man who repeatedly stabbed his neighbour after subjecting her to a campaign of harassment has been found guilty of her murder. |
| Trevor Gibbon, 48, from Harrow, north-west London, stabbed Alison Morrison 33 times on 18 December, before fleeing the scene, the Old Bailey heard. As she lay dying, she named her attacker. | Trevor Gibbon, 48, from Harrow, north-west London, stabbed Alison Morrison 33 times on 18 December, before fleeing the scene, the Old Bailey heard. As she lay dying, she named her attacker. |
| The day before the murder Gibbon pleaded guilty to harassing the family and was given a restraining order. | |
| He will be sentenced on Tuesday. | |
| Skateboard complaint | |
| The court heard that as she lay dying in the street near her home, 45-year-old Mrs Morrison told residents who went to help her: "Trevor Gibbon did this to me." | |
| Afterwards, the killer fled in his Mercedes but was picked up the same morning 100 miles away in Lincolnshire, saying he was "heading for the coast". | Afterwards, the killer fled in his Mercedes but was picked up the same morning 100 miles away in Lincolnshire, saying he was "heading for the coast". |
| Still with dried blood on his hands, he told officers: "It was over a neighbour dispute." | Still with dried blood on his hands, he told officers: "It was over a neighbour dispute." |
| The Old Bailey heard the trouble dated back to 2011 when Mrs Morrison, her husband Cedric and their teenage son moved next door to Gibbon and his partner. | |
| Gibbon initially complained about the noise from her son's skateboard and then embarked upon a long campaign of harassment. | |
| Mrs Morrison reported the harassment to the council and police and, in the days before she was killed, described in a written statement shown to the jury how "it got so bad" that she could not sleep properly and "felt it would never end." | |
| In the statement she said Gibbon threatened her by trapping her in her car, banging dustbin lids loudly at 6am below her window, and repeatedly flashing his car lights. | |
| He was charged with harassing the family between 1 August 2012 and 31 October 2014 and admitted the offence at magistrates' court the day before he killed her. | |
| Gibbon denied murder and claimed he was suffering a mental abnormality when he stabbed Mrs Morrison. | |
| 'My...bright light' | |
| Members of Mrs Morrison's family wept as the jury found him guilty after deliberating for two days. | Members of Mrs Morrison's family wept as the jury found him guilty after deliberating for two days. |
| Her husband Cedric told the court: "Alison was my best friend, my soulmate, the soul of our home and the breadwinner to the household." | |
| He said he found her death incomprehensible and added: "A bright light has been extinguished forever." | |
| Mrs Morrison had supported him through ill health following a kidney transplant and also volunteered with the local police. | |
| At her funeral officers lined up to salute her coffin. | |
| Her son Kori told the court in his victim impact statement that Gibbon had effectively given him a life sentence by taking his mother away from him. | |
| "I fail to see how any prospect of release could ever be given to him," Kori added. |