How murderer Jack Crawley used Grindr to find victims

Army veteran Paul Taylor was a 56-year-old “gentle and loving” dad.

He lived in the town of Annan, Dumfries and Galloway, and worked at the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle.

Unbeknown to his family, he was living a double life, something they only discovered through the most harrowing of circumstances.

“I will never have the opportunity to hear from Paul about his lifestyle choices,” his widow Maria wrote in a victim impact statement, adding, “but I do not judge him”.

Paul was murdered by Jack Crawley.

The pair had previously met for sex through the app Grindr.

Last October, they went to a secluded area in Carlisle, where Crawley then bludgeoned Paul to death with a hammer and stole his car.

His body was not discovered until seven months later.

Crawley also attempted to murder another man near York in January, in what was called an almost “carbon copy” of Paul’s murder. His victim, also in his 50s, managed to fight him off.