Schoolboy killer plotted three ways to kill girlfriend – all for ‘fry-up bet’
Schoolboy killer Joshua Davies took eight years to confess to bludgeoning his teenage girlfriend to death.
The then 16-year-old lured Rebecca Aylward, from Bridgend, in South wales, to a woodland, saying they were going on a date, only to brutally kill her with a rock.
For almost a decade Davies refused to accept responsibility for the crime and forced his victim's family to sit throigh the gruesome details of his crime at his trial.
And now a Quest Red documentary, Britain's Deadliest Kids, reveals the teen killer planned THREE ways to murder his tragic girlfriend, all for a bet with a friend for a cooked breakfast.
Speaking exclusively in the documentary, local journalist Bob Arthur claims that Davies had, other than strangling and beating her to death, planned two alternative ways to kill Becca.
He claims: "He had several plans to see death come about. One was to invite her to take a stroll along the river bank.
"He knew that she couldn’t swim. He would push her in and then jump into the river, apparently to save her, but use that as an opportunity to make sure that she drown.
"He came up with a second plan. This one would involve poisoning her.
"He in fact researched the subject and decided upon foxglove and deadly nightshade.
"He actually got hold of the substances and mixed them together.”
That very concoction was found at Davies’ grandmother’s home following his arrest.
There are even fears Davies tried to carry out his sick poisoning plan before he eventually murdered Becca.
Becca, 15, was suddenly taken ill with a mystery stomach bug.
Aylward family friend and author Lynn Barrett-Lee said: "Becca was actually hospitalised with a very strange, mysterious stomach complaint.
"She collapsed a couple of times and was suffering from a very painful stomach. The cause was never found."
Becca and Davies had seemed like the perfect teenage couple.
But when police began investigating her murder, it emerged that Davies had been an abusive and controlling boyfriend.
He regularly read her diary and spread the contents as rumours.
Becca's best friend Iriving Smith said: "Josh would make up rumours about her.
"There was one where he told people that she was pregnant and then took her aside and said ‘you’re going to say, you are’ when she wasn’t. I always thought it was about control.”
Forensic psychologist Dr Keri Nixon argues that Davies did got pleasure out of planning Becca’s death.
She said: “He was getting enjoyment out of the actual planning, not just the murder itself, but how he was going to do it.”
Even his confession last year, while he is serving his sentence for the crime, cuased more pain for his victim's family.
At the time Becca's mum, Sonia Oatley, said: “My victim liaison officer called me to her office and said ‘he’s admitted it’.
“I just sat there looking at her. I wasn’t expecting it at all and was so shocked I couldn’t say anything for a few minutes.
“Apparently, he’d said he needed to see his probation officer, and then said ‘I did it – nobody else was involved – I am totally responsible’.
“By pleading not guilty he put us through the pain of a five-week trial where we had to listen to every gr uesome detail of how Becca died.”
She said Davies “enjoyed putting us through that ordeal”.
The murder trial in 2011 heard Davies had sent texts to his friends about plans to murder Rebecca.
A pal offered to buy him breakfast if he carried out the threat. Two days before Rebecca’s death in 2010, Davies texted the friend saying: “You may just owe me a breakfast.”
At the trial Davies claimed to be innocent. He blamed the murder near Bridgend, South Wales – close to Rebecca’s family home in Maesteg – on a friend.
Sonia said: “Seeing her in the mortuary it felt like my heart was being physically torn from my body.
“I yearned to hold and kiss her but wasn’t allowed to. He even deprived me of that goodbye.
"We invited Joshua into our family. And to be betrayed in such a horrendous way… I can never trust anybody again.”
Sonia fears 23-year-old Davies, from Bridgend, has confessed in a cynical attempt to reduce the time he will be in prison.
At Swansea crown court in 2011 he was told he must serve a minimum of 14 years after being convicted of murder.
- Britain’s Deadliest Kids airs Saturdays at 10pm on Quest Red and on the QuestOD app
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