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25/11/2014
Accused Changes Plea Over Breck Bednar Murder
A 19-year-old man has admitted the murder of a teenage boy he met while playing video games online.
14-year-old Breck Bednar, of Caterham, Surrey, was found with a stab wound to his neck at a flat in Grays, Essex, in February.
Lewis Daynes admitted murder ahead of the jury being sworn in at the start of his trial.
Daynes, of Rosebery Road, Grays, had previously denied the murder, but gave the last minute confession as the trial got underway, the BBC reported.
Daynes will now be sentenced on 12th January.
(MH/CD)
14-year-old Breck Bednar, of Caterham, Surrey, was found with a stab wound to his neck at a flat in Grays, Essex, in February.
Lewis Daynes admitted murder ahead of the jury being sworn in at the start of his trial.
Daynes, of Rosebery Road, Grays, had previously denied the murder, but gave the last minute confession as the trial got underway, the BBC reported.
Daynes will now be sentenced on 12th January.
(MH/CD)
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