Three teenagers detained over killing of man they thought was a ‘paedo’ | UK | News
Three teenagers have been detained for killing a man they thought was a paedophile by luring him to a Kent beach before one threw rocks and a bottle at him. A 16-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy were sentenced to seven years in custody, while a 15-year-old boy was handed a five-year term, at the Old Bailey on Thursday, for the manslaughter of Alexander Cashford, 49, in Leysdown-on-Sea on the Isle of Sheppey on August 10 last year. Prosecutors say Mr Cashford was chased and hit with rocks and a bottle, and was found lying face down in mud. He met the 16-year-old girl at around 7pm on August 10 at the seafront in Leysdown-on-Sea, and just over an hour later he was dead, a trial had heard. Sentencing the trio on Thursday, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said she accepted it started out as a “bit of mischief” of teenagers on holiday, but turned into “dangerous misconduct which risked and ultimately took a man’s life”. The sentences were passed to a packed public gallery. Judge Cheema-Grubb …
