The club is facing closure because of an application to build 3,000 homes on the site.
Ifield railway station in Crawley ranks top in the country for train cancellations.
Crawley Borough Council says The Gables had fallen into significant disrepair after closing down.
Sentencing the pair, Judge Jeremy Gold says the "dreadful crime" was "carefully planned".
Kaydon Prior killed Harrison Tomkins as he slept in Alicia Parrin's Crawley flat, a court heard.
The Reverend Lizzi Green says the message coming from the US is "deeply, deeply wrong".
