Everything the judge told selfish Matthew Mason as he jailed him for life for the murder of schoolboy Alex Rodda This was carefully planned and ruthlessly carried out, showing no empathy and a callous disregard for Alex, his family and friends
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Matthew Mason A MURDERER who killed a 15-year-old boy in woodland in Cheshire has been jailed for life. Matthew Mason, of Ollerton, hit Pickmere teenager Alex Rodda 15 times with a spanner before leaving him for dead in Ashley near Altrincham on December 12 2019. The 20-year-old killer was found guilty of murder at Chester Crown Court with earlier this month. Today, Monday, he returned to the court to be sentenced and was handed a life imprisonment with a minimum term of 28 years.
The scene of the murder and, inset, Alex Rodda Mason had admitted bludgeoning the Holmes Chapel Community School pupil to death during the vicious assault in December 2019, but denied murder – arguing that he had experienced a loss of control after being blackmailed by the teenager.
A TEENAGE killer has been told he will serve a minimum of 28 years behind bars after being told he had an unbreakable intention to kill his victim. Matthew Mason, who recently turned 20, of Ash Lane, Ollerton, murdered 15-year-old Alex Rodda by bludgeoning him to death with a wrench in secluded woodland in Ashley on December 12 2019. Judge Everett, The Honourary Recorder for Chester, told Mason it was clear he had carefully planned the murder and ruthlessly carried it out. He said: You had already formed an unbreakable intention to kill him. The manner and force with which you carried it out truly beggars belief.