A series of text messages between two British teen lovers reveal in chilling detail how the relationship quickly led to murder, according to a report.
Matthew Mason, 19, was found guilty of the murder of his 15-year-old lover Alex Rodda last week after Rodda exposed their relationship to Mason’s girlfriend, according to a report in The Sun.
“You have to tell your girlfriend the truth Matt, because I already have,” Rodda wrote in a text message.
Mason killed the schoolboy in a remote forest on December 12 in Cheshire, near Manchester in the northwest of the country.
The killer lured his lover under the “semblance of sexual activity” before knocking him down in “cold blood” with a wrench, court documents say.
Their six-week relationship soon broke up after Rodda, who was openly gay, threatened to expose Mason, who had a girlfriend and lived on a farm with his millionaire parents. Rodda also threatened to upload sexually explicit photos to his social media account.