A hospital security guard has been found guilty of trying to murder a man with a hammer on a disused airfield near York. 

Carlisle Crown Court heard that Jack Ryan Crawley had lured the victim to the former RAF site in Acaster Malbis for a sexual encounter in January.

But he took a hammer with him and repeatedly hit him.

Crawley, 20, of no fixed address, was on bail at the time for a similar attack on another man in Cumbria. 

Today a jury found him guilty of attempted murder in relation to the York attack and murder in relation to the Cumbrian attack. 

He will be sentenced on Wednesday.

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