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EXCERPTS: A 16-year-old boy accused of stoning a man to death after luring him to a beach by posing as a teenage girl has admitted manslaughter. Three teenagers are on trial at Woolwich Crown Court charged with murdering Alexander Cashford, 49, in Leysdown-on-Sea, Kent, on August 10 last year.
Jurors have been told the victim met a 16-year-old girl at an arcade in the seaside resort two days earlier and gave her his number, which the boy saved in his phone as ‘Pedo’. The three defendants – the 16-year-old boy and girl and another boy aged 15 – swapped around 75 messages with Mr Cashford, who thought he was speaking to a girl named ‘Sienna’, the court has heard.
Prosecutor Kate Blumgart KC told jurors yesterday the teenagers used the messages to lure Mr Cashford down to the seafront as part of a ‘deliberate plan to attack him’.
[...] Jurors have been told police found a video recording on the 16-year-old boy’s phone, which prosecutors say was filmed by the girl, in which she shouts ‘f****** paedophile, I’m f****** 16’ and ‘Get him’.
The 16-year-old boy is filmed shouting and holding the glass bottle, before using it to hit Mr Cashford on the back of the head and swinging it at his upper body, the court heard. As the boys chased Mr Cashford, he fell onto the stone floor, jurors were told.
The 15-year-old boy then tripped over the 49-year-old. The girl can be heard shouting ‘Get him, f****** nonce’, before the recording stops, the court was told... (MORE - missing details)
EXCERPTS: A 16-year-old boy accused of stoning a man to death after luring him to a beach by posing as a teenage girl has admitted manslaughter. Three teenagers are on trial at Woolwich Crown Court charged with murdering Alexander Cashford, 49, in Leysdown-on-Sea, Kent, on August 10 last year.
Jurors have been told the victim met a 16-year-old girl at an arcade in the seaside resort two days earlier and gave her his number, which the boy saved in his phone as ‘Pedo’. The three defendants – the 16-year-old boy and girl and another boy aged 15 – swapped around 75 messages with Mr Cashford, who thought he was speaking to a girl named ‘Sienna’, the court has heard.
Prosecutor Kate Blumgart KC told jurors yesterday the teenagers used the messages to lure Mr Cashford down to the seafront as part of a ‘deliberate plan to attack him’.
[...] Jurors have been told police found a video recording on the 16-year-old boy’s phone, which prosecutors say was filmed by the girl, in which she shouts ‘f****** paedophile, I’m f****** 16’ and ‘Get him’.
The 16-year-old boy is filmed shouting and holding the glass bottle, before using it to hit Mr Cashford on the back of the head and swinging it at his upper body, the court heard. As the boys chased Mr Cashford, he fell onto the stone floor, jurors were told.
The 15-year-old boy then tripped over the 49-year-old. The girl can be heard shouting ‘Get him, f****** nonce’, before the recording stops, the court was told... (MORE - missing details)