Gareth Pursehouse found guilty of murdering ex Aime Harwick

Gareth Pursehouse — the man accused of killing comedian Drew Carey’s former fianceé and throwing her body off a third-floor balcony— was found guilty of murder and could spend the rest of his life in prison.

A Los Angeles jury also found Pursehouse, 45, guilty of first-degree residential burglary and believed he was “lying in wait” before he killed prominent Hollywood sex therapist Amie Harwick — his 38-year-old ex-girlfriend — at her Hollywood Hills home on Valentine’s Day in 2020.

“There was a lot of evidence that really indicates the malicious intent of the defendant in wanting to kill Amie Harwick and punishing her,” prosecutor Catherine Mariano said during a press conference after the verdict was read on Thursday.

“I do believe this was an absolute desperate act.”

Pursehouse looked somber and remained quiet as the verdict was read out loud by a clerk at Los Angeles County Superior Court.

Carey, who was engaged to Harwick before the pair broke up in 2018, was not at Thursday’s hearing, sources told The Post.

“When I heard that she got murdered, right away, I thought: ‘It’s gotta be that guy,’” “The Price Is Right” host told “48 Hours” in 2022.

Carey broke down and added, “She was murdered by an ex-boyfriend that had been stalking her for about 10 years and she was deathly afraid, even afraid of him when we were in [our] relationship.”

The Post has reached out to him for comment on the verdict.

Harwick had dated Pursehouse before Carey, but friends said her eventual killer became “obsessed” with the stunning sex therapist after she broke up with him in 2012.

Friends who testified during the trial said Pursehouse continued to send her “weepy messages” over the years. She also warned her friends that “If anything happens to me, it would be Gareth,” prosecutors said.

When she ran into Pursehouse at an event he was shooting as a photographer in January 2020, his obsession over her was reignited, friends alleged.

Harwick applied for two restraining orders against Pursehouse before he showed up at her door on Valentine’s Day three years ago.

“He has suffocated me, punched me, slammed my head on the ground, kicked me,” Harwick wrote in one of the restraining orders.

“This has resulted in bruises, inability to walk, bleeding, broken blood vessels around [my] face, whiplash, sore neck and back.”

During the trial, prosecutors said Pursehouse broke into Harwick’s home on Valentine’s Day in 2020 and waited for hours before he strangled her and then threw her body off the third-floor balcony, according to KTLA.

Police also found a syringe with a lethal dose of nicotine at the home.

His defense attorneys claimed Pursehouse was suicidal and intended to use the nicotine dose on himself. They said Harwick accidentally fell off the balcony and their client had nothing to do with her death.

Pursehouse is scheduled to return to court for his sentencing on Dec. 6.

Carey and Harwick met in 2017 at a party in Las Vegas. Carey told “48 Hours” he “fell so had for her” and even posted an Instagram picture of them together with the caption, “The face of a lottery winner.”

“You want an intimate relationship where you can open up to somebody completely and be yourself. And she was that for me,” the grieving comedian told the show.

Friends and family who attended Thursday’s hearing in Los Angeles said they found some solace after the verdict.

“There is never closure in situations like this,” said her friend Robert Coshland. “But at least justice was served today.”