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Welsh schoolboy kills ex for free breakfast
Joshua Davies arriving at Court.
A Welsh schoolboy has been found guilty of bashing his ex-girlfriend to death with a rock in exchange for a free breakfast from one of his friends.
Davies, 16, lured his ex-girlfriend Rebecca Aylward, 15 to a secluded spot where he killed her to win a bet over a free breakfast.
Rebecca was still in love with Davies after their break-up, and agreed to meet with him under the impression that he wanted to get back together.
In a weekly breakfast gathering on Saturday mornings, Davies bragged to friends that he could poison, drown or push Rebecca off a cliff and "get away with it".
After one such meeting, Davies texted a friend asking "What would you do if I actually did kill her?"
"Oh, I would buy you breakfast," the friend replied.
Two days before the killing Davies texted the friend saying "Don't say anything but you may just owe me a breakfast."
"Best text I have ever had mate," the friend replied.
"Seriously, if it is true I am happy to pay for a breakfast.
"I want all the details, you sadistic bastard."
The court heard the other schoolboys genuinely believed Davies' murder plans were simply a macabre joke until he took them to see Rebecca's dead body.
Davies faces a life sentence after being found guilty yesterday.
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A 16-year-old murdered his former girlfriend Rebecca Aylward by battering her over the head with a rock to win a bet for a free breakfast, a court has heard. The alleged killer lured Rebecca to a secluded wood and murdered her within weeks of making a ‘chilling bet’ with a friend.
He had told her to say she was meeting someone else but 15-year-old Rebecca informed her mother she was meeting him. Greg Taylor, prosecuting, said the defendant used to meet every Saturday at a café with teenage friends where they had breakfast together.
At one such meeting, he openly discussed killing the girl, his friends assuming he was joking. Mr Taylor read out a series of text messages allegedly from the accused and friends.
In one, he asked: ‘What would you do if I actually did kill her?’ The friend replied: ‘Oh, I would buy you breakfast.’
Two days before the killing, the defendant, who cannot be named because of his age, contacted his pal to confirm he would attend their breakfast date. He added: ‘Don’t say anything but you may just owe me a breakfast.’
The friend replied: ‘Best text I have ever had mate. Seriously, if it is true I am happy to pay for a breakfast.’ The defendant added: ‘I hope by then it will be done and dusted.’
The teenager said: ‘Large breakfast with extras of everything.’ His friend replied: ‘Sick, sick boy.’
Mr Taylor said Rebecca, of Maesteg, south Wales, was lured to a forest in Aberkenfig.
She was hit on the head with a rock a number of times and left for dead, he said.
Mr Taylor added that the defendant later called his friends to join him in the woods but only his best friend continued to the scene. He would later tell police in an interview how shocked he was to discover the girl’s body.
Later, the defendant is said to have explained to two friends: ‘She would not stop screaming and I picked up a rock. The worst part of it was feeling her skull give way.’
The boy denies murder. The trial continues at Swansea crown court.
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