The online predator who murdered a 14-year-old boy posted pictures of his dead body on the Internet so that his younger siblings discovered something terrible had happened before their father was able to break the news.
Lewis Daynes, 19, stabbed computer gaming enthusiast, Breck Bednar, in a sexually or sadistically motivated attack, after luring him to his home in Grays, Essex last February.
But in a sickening twist to the case it can now be revealed that after killing the teenager, he sent images of his dead body to friends who were part of their online gaming group.
It meant that news of the murder began circulating on the Internet before Breck’s father, Barry, 49, was able to break the news to his 12-year-old triplet siblings, Sebastian, Carly and Chloe.
Sebastian even received a text message from a friend asking if the terrible news about his brother was true, at the same time police were informing his parents of the tragedy.
The appalling events unfolded after Daynes persuaded Breck, who was one of six youngsters involved in an online gaming group, to visit his home, claiming he would upgrade his computer for him.
Once there the baby-faced 19-year-old, turned on the youngster, repeatedly stabbing him in the neck.
He had been due to stand trial last week, but suddenly changed his plea at the last minute, and admitted the brutal killing.
Breck’s devastated parents had previously warned the police that their son was being manipulated and groomed by someone on the Internet and are bringing legal action against two forces over alleged failures to investigate properly.
The teenager’s mother, Lorin LaFave, set out her concerns to Surrey Police in a 30 minute phone call, just weeks before her son was murdered, but the police allegedly failed to follow up the call.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is currently investigating Surrey's handling of the case.
The family’s heartbreak was compounded by Daynes’s sick actions in posting pictures of his body online among his friends.
As news of the murder began to spread via Facebook and other social media sites the police contacted Breck’s father, a millionaire oil trader, and told him he needed to go home immediately.
However by the time he got back, officers were already at his address with his other children who were aware something had happened.
As police broke the news to Mr Bednar in one room, Sebastian received a text in another from a friend asking: “Is it true about your brother? If it’s true, it’s so sad.”
Mr Bednar told the Mail on Sunday: “I heard crying from the TV room and I told the police that I would be going in to tell them. But the triplets already knew because of the text.”
Breck’s parents, who moved to the UK from their native US 17-years ago, have set up the Breck Bednar Memorial Foundation to raise awareness of the dangers Internet relationships can pose for teenagers. http://www.breckbednar.com/
Daynes will be sentenced in January.
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