A frail 83-year-old was today found guilty of murdering his nephew after he stabbed him to death over a £20,000 inheritance row then set fire to the property they were in.
Alan Wotton, who has a heart condition and wears a hearing aid, stabbed his nephew 11 times before setting fire to his late sister's home where he had been staying.
Police bodyworn camera footage released today shows the moment that the pensioner lied to police that he had killed Andrew Avery, 65, in an act of self-defence.
The footage shows Wotton breathing through an oxygen mask as he is questioned at the scene by officers, telling them his victim 'had the knives'.
Asked if he knows how Mr Avery 'got hurt', he replies: 'I turned it on him, the b******.'
He then confirms it was the knives he had supposedly 'turned' on Mr Avery.
Wotton believed Mr Avery was deliberately withholding £20,000 that his sister June - Mr Avery's mother - had left for him.
Wotton was staying in June's home in Gosport, Hants, following her death but Mr Avery bought his uncle a flat in the town so he could move out.
Wotton was upset at having to move out and 'aggrieved' about the inheritance money so he murdered Mr Avery.
Mr Avery had come round to help Wotton move out in November 2024 and was stabbed 11 times, with Wotton then setting fire to the property.
Wotton, who was 81 at the time but is now 83, has today been found guilty of murdering his nephew Andrew Avery at a property in Gosport, Hants, on November 29 2024.
Mr Avery had been helping Wotton move out of the property following its sale and had arranged alternative accommodation for him.
On the day he was due to leave, Wotton attacked his nephew with a kitchen knife, inflicting 11 stab wounds. Mr Avery sadly died from those injuries.
Wotton then deliberately started fires inside the property before leaving Mr Avery in the smoke-filled house. Fire investigators identified three separate seats of fire and concluded they had been started deliberately.
Members of the public alerted emergency services after noticing smoke coming from the address.
Wotton admitted to arson but denied murder, claiming he had acted in self-defence.
He has now been found guilty of the crime.
Police bodyworn camera footage released today showed the moment that Alan Wotton, then 81, lied to police that he had killed Andrew Avery, 65, in an act of self-defence
Andrew Avery died after being stabbed 11 times when he arrived to help his uncle move out, Portsmouth Crown Court heard
Pictures of the charred interior of the house were shown to jurors at Portsmouth Crown Court
Simon Clark, of the Crown Prosecution Service, said: 'Alan Wotton carried out a ruthless attack on his nephew before setting fire to the property.
'The prosecution case drew together compelling witness accounts, forensic evidence and admissions made by Wotton himself in the immediate aftermath of the murder.
'Andrew Avery had been helping his uncle and arranging for his future. Instead, he lost his life in a horrific and wholly unnecessary act of violence.
'Our thoughts remain with Andrew's family and loved ones and we hope today's verdict provides them with some measure of justice.'
Wotton will be sentenced at Portsmouth Crown Court on 22 October 2026.
Opening the case, prosecutor Jodie Mittell KC told Portsmouth Crown Court: 'There's no dispute that Mr Wotton killed Mr Avery on 29 November 2024.
'At the time of his death, Mr Avery was 65 and Mr Avery died as a result of multiple stab wounds.
'In total, there were seven stab wounds to his torso and four more to his left leg, so 11 stab wounds in total and there's no dispute that Mr Wotton caused those wounds.'
Ms Mittell said that Wotton argued he acted in 'self defence', but the prosecution alleges that he was in fact the 'aggressor and the attacker' and had 'no need to defend himself at all'.
She continued: 'The story starts with Mr Wotton's sister. Her name was June.
'When June passed away in 2023, it fell to her family members, her final executors of her will were one of her children, Andy, and a grandson called James.'
Once the relevant formalities were gone through, the family needed to sell June's house.
Ms Mittell said: 'When June passed away, Mr Wotton travelled to the UK from Hungary where he had been living for a number of years.
'He travelled to his sister's funeral.
'Andy and his brother Colin expected Mr Wotton to return to Hungary after the funeral.
'Andy Avery was the one who was then managing the house sale, so it was with his permission that instead of finding alternative accommodation, he was allowed to stay at his deceased sister's house while the family were making the necessary arrangements.'
The blackened banister and fire-damaged walls following the blaze in November 2024
In November 2024, June Avery's house was sold, which meant Wotton had to leave and move to a new flat.
John Portlock, Mr Avery's husband, told the court that the pair married in August 2024, just three months before his death.
He lent £84,000 to his husband to buy the flat, and Mr Avery spent about £40,000 of his own money on the flat which would be bought in his own name.
Mr Portlock said that Mr Avery wanted to 'look after' his uncle because it was what his mother would have wanted.
Wotton was due to move out of Ms Avery's house on the day of the alleged murder.
'His nephew hadn't just given him his marching orders, though,' the prosecutor said.
'To the contrary, Mr Avery had made a considerable number of arrangements that would allow his uncle to move to a flat in Stoke Road in Gosport.
'On November 29 2024, Mr Wotton was due to move out and his nephew went to Exmouth Road to assist him.'
She said the motive for the murder 'appears to be a reluctance on Mr Wotton's part to depart his sister's address, and/or him feeling aggrieved about the financial transactions…and him feeling his nephew was stealing his inheritance money'.
Wotton later told police that his sister had left him £20,000 in her will.
According to Ms Mittell, he told them: 'What Andy was suggesting was that he would put Mr Wotton's money into his name and the suggestion he relayed to the police was that the interest from that money could then be used to pay for Mr Wotton's council tax and bills.
'Mr Wotton felt his nephew was trying to steal his money from him. He said it was his nephew that had gone into the kitchen and taken a knife from the knife block and he said that his nephew moved towards him, but with the knife.'
Ms Mittell said that after emergency services arrived at the scene on 29 November 2024, Wotton said his nephew was 'not man enough' and 'he had hit him in the mouth, taken his knife off him and finished him'.
He added: 'I turned it on him, the b******.'
After being arrested on suspicion of murder, the prosecutor said he told police: 'The way that he put it was that he was winning the fight and he described then stabbing his nephew a number of times in the leg, while also recalling that he called him a "thieving b******".'
When asked if he intended to kill his nephew, he said: 'Probably, yeah'.