Jurors in Alexander Cashford trial told: ‘This isn’t Lord of the Flies’

Jurors trying three teenagers accused of murdering a man on the seafront after branding him a paedophile were warned today: ‘This isn’t Lord of the Flies.’ Electrician Alexander Cashford, 49, was ambushed by a boy and a girl, both 16, and another boy aged 15, two days after he gave the girl his phone number at an amusement arcade in Leysdown-on-Sea, Kent. They sent him messages, using the fake name ‘Sienna’, arranging to meet him by the sea wall on…

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