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The toxic mix that led to teenager Alex Rodda's murder
They both went to Holmes Chapel High School and were both teenagers from rural Cheshire, but they could hardly have been more different.Matthew Mason’s family was raised in a million pound, six-bed farmhouse, Ash Farm, in Ollerton, near wealthy Knutsford.He got nine GCSEs and was set on an agricultural career. A student at Reaseheath College in Nantwich, where he was doing a three-year Agricultural Engineering course, he worked part-time at Ashbrooks, a plant and agricultural hire firm, either working in the yard or travelling around doing jobs.He lived with his churchgoing family - his mum, dad and two sisters - and enjoyed fishing and fixing farm machinery.His social life revolved around the local ‘Young Farmers’ group.
