Three teenagers have been detained for killing a man they thought was a paedophile by luring him to a Kent beach before one threw rocks and a bottle at him.
A 16-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy were sentenced to seven years in custody, and a 15-year-old boy was handed a five-year term, at the Old Bailey on Thursday for the manslaughter of Alexander Cashford, 49, in Leysdown-on-Sea on the Isle of Sheppey on August 10 last year.
They had been on trial at Woolwich Crown Court accused of murdering Mr Cashford, but all three teenagers were acquitted of murder and charged with manslaughter.
Sentencing the trio on Thursday, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said she accepted it started out as a “bit of mischief” of teenagers on holiday, but turned into “dangerous misconduct which risked and ultimately took a man’s life”.
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