A teenager has told a court he killed a schoolboy after he threatened to "ruin" his life by revealing their sexual relationship.
Matthew Mason, 19, denies the murder of Alex Rodda, 15, but admits beating him to death with a spanner in remote woodland in Ashley, Cheshire, on December 12 last year.
Giving evidence at Chester Crown Court on Thursday, Mason, who lived with his parents on a farm near Knutsford, said he and Alex began messaging each other in October 2019.
He said the messages were friendly at first but Alex started sending messages of a more sexual nature. On October 31, Mason said, he sent an explicit photo and video to Alex when he was drunk after an evening in the pub with Young Farmers.
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