A 19-year-old British apprentice stands accused of fatally bludgeoning a 15-year-old schoolboy with a wrench after paying nearly $2,700 over a three-week period to stop him from reporting their “intimate” relationship to police, prosecutors allege.
Matthew Mason, an apprentice mechanic, allegedly lured Alex Rodda to a remote wooded area under the pretense of sex last December and then struck him at least 15 times with a long wrench, the Manchester Evening News reported.
Rodda’s partially clothed body was found near the village of Ashley in Cheshire, England, on Dec. 13. Prosecutors said the boy had been involved in an ongoing intimate relationship with Mason, then 18, at the time of his death, the newspaper reported.