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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/gladiator-killer-convicted-in-us.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Lavern Ritch who died in the US after being stabbed in the chest" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-gladiator-killer-convicted-in-us.jpg" alt="Lavern Ritch who died in the US after being stabbed in the chest"/></a></p>
<p>An American who stabbed a British tourist and former Gladiators contestant to death has been cleared of his murder.</p>
<p>But a jury convicted Robert Davies of the reckless manslaughter of Lavern Ritch, from Penarth in South Wales.</p>
<p>Mr Ritch, 37, once considered among Britain&#8217;s 50 most eligible bachelors, was on a two-week holiday and visiting friends outside Philadelphia in August 2007 when he went to the New Jersey seashore in Margate.</p>
<p>He tried to intervene when he saw Davies, a convicted sex offender, fighting with another person and was stabbed once in the chest.</p>
<p>Davies, 49, told the court in Jersey he acted in self-defence after fearing Mr Ritch was part of a gang bent on harming or killing him moments after he had been assaulted by someone else.</p>
<p>Davies was also convicted of possessing a weapon for an unlawful purpose, and being a convicted criminal in possession of a weapon.</p>
<p>He faces up to 10 years in prison when sentenced.</p>
<p>Davies, who began the trial acting as his own lawyer but later abandoned that in favour of having a public defender, told jurors in his opening statement that he stabbed Mr Ritch.</p>
<p>Mr Ritch, 37, appeared as a contestant in the British version of Gladiators in 1998, making it to a quarter-final round.</p>
<p>He was a swimming and fitness instructor in Cardiff; was listed in a 2002 poll of Britain&#8217;s 50 most eligible bachelors by Company magazine; and was named the 12th most eligible man in Wales that same year in a local newspaper.</p>
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