The schoolgirl killed for a bet: Boy, 16, was dared by Facebook friends to murder in exchange for a free breakfast

2011-07-28 28/07/2011 The schoolgirl killed for a bet: Boy, 16, was dared by Facebook friends to murder in exchange for a free breakfast Relaxing with his girlfriend, he looks the picture of innocence. Yet not long after this picture was taken with Rebecca Aylward, Joshua Davies battered her to death. Davies, 16, lured his ex-girlfriend to a secluded spot where he killed her to win a bet over a free breakfast. Rebecca, 15, and her mother Sonia had both been delighted when Davies, an academically gifted boy from a churchgoing family, arranged to meet her again. When her daughter failed to come home, Mrs Aylward's reaction was to tell her sister not to worry adding: 'She's safe, she's with Josh'. By that time Rebecca had been bludgeoned with a rock the size of a rugby ball - and Davies was trying to cover his tracks on Facebook. He failed - and was yesterday found guilty of murder. The chilling case highlighted how he used the internet, text messages and an array of social networking sites to plot her death. A few weeks before the murder, one of his friends had joked that he would ïbuy him breakfastÍ if he carried out his threat. Two days before he killed Rebecca, Davies told him: ïYou may have to buy me a breakfast.Í As sentencing was adjourned for psychiatric reports, Mr Justice Lloyd Jones lifted an order preventing the killer from being named and photographed, saying it was in the public interest that he should be identified. Photo Shows: Joshua Davies, the defendant accused of murdering Rebecca Aylward. ©Exclusivepix Photo: Exclusivepix / ExclusivePix / SCANPIX / kod 10481 ref: ***BETALBILD***