The court was told that Thomas believed he could harness gravity and told police he was “exploring energy fields” when arrested at Buckingham Palace on 6 November 2023.
Dr Panchu Xavier told jurors that his patient was experiencing psychosis when he was admitted to Ashworth High Secure Hospital, Liverpool, in March 2024.
Thomas and Mr Bush had been friends since they met at school at Christ College in Brecon, Powys.
Mr Bull KC, prosecuting, told the court that while Mr Bush was popular, Thomas had few friends and was viewed as something of a loner.
Orlando Pownall KC, defending, had told the trial there was no question Thomas was psychotic, but said the dispute was over the timings.
Mr Pownall told jurors Thomas had been through “a lot of stressful situations” including his parents’ separation, and there was “alleged domestic violence”.
The Thomas family company was launched as Thomas Pies in the 1950s, selling sausage rolls, pies and pasties around the south Wales valleys.
In the 1970s it became Peter’s Pies, and is now known as Peter’s Food, based in Bedwas in Caerphilly county.
It was founded by the late Stan Thomas, who passed it on to his sons Stan junior – Dylan Thomas’s grandfather – and Peter, the former chairman of Cardiff RFC rugby club, who died in 2023.
They sold the company in 1988.
