THE 19-YEAR-OLD who admitted the murder of Caterham boy Breck Bednar claimed two masked Middle Eastern gunmen had carried out the killing, a court heard this morning.
In a letter to a prison officer, Lewis Daynes, from Grays in Essex, claimed the assassins had forced the boys to perform a sex act together and then tied Breck up before fatally stabbing him in the neck.
However, Daynes rang police at 11.06am on February 17 last year to admit the murder, the court was reminded.
53 minutes earlier he sent three pictures of Breck's dead body to two online friends. As he was being arrested Daynes told police: "It was an accident. We got into a fight. I should have known better than to go for an artery on a friend."
14-year-old Breck, of Crescent Road, Caterham, and a pupil at St Bede's school in Redhill, suffered a four inch wound to his neck, Chelmsford Crown Court heard.
The court was told Daynes had groomed Breck ahead of that fateful first meeting, including claims that Breck would benefit from a multi-million pound Government computing contract.
Daynes admits murder but denies any "sexual or sadistic" motive as alleged by the prosecution.
It follows a dramatic about-turn in November, when Daynes, a computer engineer who was due to stand trial for the murder, changed his plea to guilty.
