A SATELLITE TV engineer has been found guilty of brutally murdering his neighbour by stabbing her 33 times with two knives.
Trevor Gibbon, 48, carried out the frenzied attack on mother-of-one Alison Morrison after a dispute spiralled over into violence.
Gibbon faces life behind bars for the killing after a jury unanimously found him guilty of murder today at the Old Bailey.
Mrs Morrison, a charity executive, was murdered the day after she won a restraining order against Gibbon.
The court heard how Mrs Morrison, 45, was walking to work when Gibbon dragged her to the ground and stabbed her with two knives in a 'calm and calculated' attack.
Gibbon ran off leaving Mrs Morrison, a senior manager for consumer charity Which?, bleeding to death near her home in Harrow, north west London.
As she lay on the pavement, she told shocked passers-by: "Trevor Gibbon did this to me."
The jury heard how Gibbon had stalked the Morrison family for two years and tried to kill himself when he was arrested for harassment.
He admitted manslaughter after the deadly attack claiming he was suffering from an 'abnormality of mental functioning'.
Mrs Morrison's family sobbed and applauded when Gibbon was unanimously convicted of murder by the jury of 10 women and one man.
The dispute erupted in 2011 after Mrs Morrison moved in to Windsor Crescent, Harrow, in 2011, and centred around the noise made by the skateboard of the family's teenage son.
Both sets of neighbours installed CCTV to gather evidence against each other as arguments raged.
In a statement made by Mrs Morrison and December 13 last year, she said Gibbon would wait and watch the family and plan his next move.
She said it felt like Gibbon "was obsessed with us" and his behaviour was "erratic".
Gibbon was arrested on November 20 last year for harassment and pleaded guilty to the charge on December 17.
The next day Mrs Morrison left her home at just after 7.40am to get the train to work but was followed by Gibbon.
Prosecutor Brian O'Neill QC told jurors: "As she walked along Alexandra Avenue on her way to work he ambushed her, attacked her, forced her to the ground using at least one of the knives he brought with him, repeatedly stabbed her before running off to his car, leaving her for dead."
Gibbon fled the scene but his car was spotted 100 miles away in Lincolnshire.
He was attested and repeatedly stamped his feet on the ground, and shouted: "F***ing hell, what have I done, f***ing hell."
Gibbon, of Windsor Crescent, Harrow, then claimed he couldn't remember the attack and refused to apologise to Mrs Morrison's family, who sat quietly in court throughout the trail.
Judge Timothy Pontius is expected to pass sentence later.
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