Breck Bednar, 14, was killed by Lewis Daynes, 18, at a flat in Grays, Essex. Bednar knew Daynes only through online gaming and had never met him in person. Daynes pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 25 years at Chelmsford Crown Court.
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Breck Bednar, 14, was killed by Lewis Daynes, 18, at a flat in Grays, Essex. Bednar knew Daynes only through online gaming and had never met him in person until he visited Daynes’s flat on the day of the murder. Daynes pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 25 years at Chelmsford Crown Court. Breck Bednar was a student at St Bede’s School in Redhill in Surrey, and a member of the Air Training Corps 135 Squadron. He attended St John the Evangelist church in Caterham. His mother described him as relaxed and warm-hearted, with many friends with whom he played games online after school, and passionate about computing. His parents, Barry Bednar and Lorin LaFave, were born in the United States and moved to England three years before Breck’s birth.
They are an oil trader and shipping consultant, described by some sources as a millionaire. Lorin is a teaching assistant and Barry is a teacher. The family lived with their three children – Breck’s younger siblings – in a family home in Caterham, Surrey. On 17 February 2014, his father sent a text message to tell Lorin that Breck had not arrived. A few hours later his siblings, 12-year-old triplets, began to receive messages that their brother had been killed, describing photos of Bednar that had been posted to social media. The photos, showing Bednar’s body, were posted to other members of the six-person online gaming group.
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