A DRUG addict has been found guilty of murder after stabbing a man to death while he slept.

Jurors found Ben Harvey, of Ridges View, Little London, guilty at Winchester Crown Court this morning after the 22-year-old denied murdering William Rudiak at a house in Turin Court on June 11 last year.

Jurors did not accept Harvey’s version of events that he had been in a psychotic state with little memory of entering the Turin Court house through an open window, armed with a knife that he took from his parent’s home.

Hours before the incident Harvey had taken cocaine, which he told the court was brought from a new supplier and snorted all 0.6grams of the Class A drug.

He said: “It was a very shiny plastic-like appearance, broke into flakes rather than a powder. I observed it was different but didn’t think anything of it at that point.”

“It made me feel not euphoric but heavy, it was doing something, but it wasn’t a euphoric feeling.”

During the trial Harvey took responsibility for Mr Rudiak’s death but his defence team claimed that he had diminished responsibility due to his state of mind.

Mr Rudiak was discovered by his girlfriend, Alexandra Taylor, after she woke when Harvey bit her cheek in the same attack and found “blood everywhere”.

Harvey then went onto a village near Andover where he attempted to molest a teenage girl, who told the court that she feared she would be raped.

The jury also found Harvey guilty of one count of causing actual bodily harm to Ms Taylor and trespass with intent to commit a sexual offence regarding the incident with the teenage girl.

Hours after the incidents, when Harvey woke, he told his girlfriend and parents that he thought he had been dreaming about stabbing somebody.

And speaking to his girlfriend after she discovered that he had been at Turin Court in the early hours of the morning gaining proof through black box records on his insurance, Harvey said: “I don’t know, it was just a random house and I thought it was a dream.”

Harvey is due to be sentenced this afternoon.