Boy Attacked Man With Bottle ‘Because Police Wouldn’t Do Anything About Paedophile’
One of the teenagers who beat a man to death after luring him to a beach by posing as a 16-year-old girl has said he believes he did the right thing by attacking his victim.
The 16-year-old boy – along with another boy, 15, and girl, 16 – is charged with murdering Alexander Cashford, 49, in Leysdown-on-Sea, Kent, on August 10 last year.
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The group believed Cashford was a paedophile after he had given his business card to the girl at the Playtime Arcade two days before the attack.
They saved his number as ‘pedo’ then texted him pretending to be a 16-year-old girl named ‘Sienna’. Cashford, who claimed to be 30, told ‘Sienna’ she was “pretty”, and said he wanted to kiss her.
They then arranged for Cashford to meet ‘Sienna’ at the beach and the 16-year-old girl assumed the role while the two boys followed from a distance.
The older boy snuck up behind Cashford and hit him on the back of the head with a bottle. Witnesses later described seeing the teens throwing rocks at his lifeless body as he lay in the mud.
At Woolwich Crown Court this week, a prosecutor asked the 16-year-old boy: “Did you think you had done the right thing?”, to which the teenager replied: “Kind of, yeah.”
The teenager added that he thought “the police wouldn’t have done anything about it” and that’s why he planned the assault.
He’s probably right that the police wouldn’t have done anything about it, and that’s because – as dodgy as a 49 year old man meeting with a 16-year-old girl is – it isn’t illegal and so technically Cashford was not a paedophile (as far as anyone knows).
Prosecutor Kate Blumgart KC asked the boy: “You wanted to hurt him with that bottle, didn’t you?”
He replied: “Yes.”
Blumgart asked: “What did you think would happen if you hit someone on the head with a bottle?”
The defendant replied: “It would give him a bump on the head.”
The prosecutor asked if he thought that might give the victim a serious injury, to which the boy said: “No.”
Blumgart asked: “If you just wanted to hit him why did you pick up the bottle?”
The defendant replied: “I don’t know.”
The teenager said he then chased Cashford and threw a rock at him “because he was too far away for me to get him”, but could not remember if he threw more rocks when the 49-year-old was on the ground (according to witnesses – he did).
He said: “I know I kicked him in the ribs but I didn’t kick him with everything I had. I wasn’t motivated to kick him that hard. At that point I wasn’t very angry.”
The boy previously admitted manslaughter but denies the murder of Cashford. You have to imagine he and his two buddies will have the book thrown at them because at the end of the day – to plan and then murder a man in such a calculated fashion is pure evil, borderline nonce or not.
For the paedophile who gave one of the most insane defences of all time when confronted by vigilantes on camera, click HERE.
