Two men have been found guilty of murdering their friend who they mistakenly believed to be a paedophile, police said.
Michael Wheeler, from Yeovil in Somerset, went missing in August 2024, and his remains were found by police a month later.
On Thursday, after a trial lasting more than five weeks, a jury at Bristol Crown Court found Mark Roberts and David Garland guilty of both murder and conspiracy to murder.
The jury had been told that the two men had mistakenly believed Mr Wheeler, who also owed one of them £100, was a paedophile after reading news coverage about a man with the same name.
Det Supt Lorett Spierenburg, from Avon and Somerset Police, said they "took the life of a man whose last words to his ex-wife were of love for her and their daughter".
