A judge has addressed the jury in the final day of a trial of a man accused of murdering a 15-year-old schoolboy. Matthew Mason is charged with beating Alex Rodda to death with a large metal tool in a woodland area near the village of Ashley, Cheshire, on December 12 last year.
Mason, then 18, murdered the 15-year-old after they entered into a sexual relationship, the Crown alleges. He paid Alex more than £2,000 over a three-week period, after Alex allegedly threatened to reveal the relationship, jurors have been told.
The Manchester Evening News reports Mason, now 19, ‘didn’t want anyone to know he was gay’, the jury has already heard. Mr Gordon Cole QC, Mason’s defence lawyer, earlier told the court that his client arranged a rendezvous
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