Yet not long after this picture was taken with Rebecca Aylward, Joshua Davies battered her to death.
Davies, 16, lured his ex-girlfriend to a secluded spot where he killed her to win a bet over a free breakfast.
A few weeks before the murder, one of his friends had joked that he would ‘buy him breakfast’ if he carried out his threat of smashing her head in.
Two days before he killed Rebecca, Davies told him: ‘You may have to buy me a breakfast.’
The chilling case highlighted how he used the internet, text messages and an array of social networking sites to plot her death.6ft Davies repeatedly slammed a rock into Rebecca’s head before leaving her bloodied and battered body face-down on a wet forest floor.
Davies told him: ‘Do you know how hard it is to break someone’s neck? She was facing away from me and I thought, “This is it, I’m going to go for it”.
‘I tried to break her neck. She was screaming so I picked up the rock and started to hit her with it. The worst part was feeling and seeing her skull give way.’
He then updated his Facebook page saying he was at home at the time of the murder, and after Rebecca had been reported missing even expressed his own fears for her welfare.
Davies made plans to return to the forest near his home on the night of the murder to bury Rebecca’s body and even attempted to pin the blame on the friend he led to the scene, using it as his defence during the trial.
Police were alerted to the killing after one of Davies’s friends told his parents and led officers to the body.
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