This is the face of John Robinson, who killed a stranger after stabbing him outside his girlfriend’s flat.
West Yorkshire Police released the 30-year-old’s custody image after he was convicted of manslaughter by a jury following a two-week trial at Bradford Crown Court.
Robinson, of Derry Hill, Menston, denied murdering Mason Jones, 30, who was pronounced dead from severe abdominal injuries on March 1, three hours after he was stabbed outside a flat off Main Street in Burley-in-Wharfedale, near Ilkley.
The jury acquitted Robinson of murder but found him guilty by a majority of an alternative charge of manslaughter.
He was also found guilty of having a bladed article in public. That verdict was unanimous.
During the trial the jury heard that Robinson, a former chef, wielded the 17cm “Katto” chef’s knife during a confrontation between his on/off girlfriend Annabel Ramsay and two men, one of whom was Mr Jones.
Robinson said the stabbing was not deliberate but accidental, and occurred when he slipped as he ran out of the flat into a narrow alleyway to defend Miss Ramsay.
He denied murder, manslaughter, and having a bladed article in public.
The jury in his trial retired on Wednesday to consider verdicts and deliberated for 11 hours and 25 minutes.
His Honour Judge Jonathan Carroll told Robinson: “You will be sentenced at 2pm this afternoon. You are remanded in custody.”
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