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The true story behind Becca Aylward's murder, the slaying described by an incredulous media as having been committed for "the price of a breakfast"

On Saturday, October 23, 2010, Sonia Oatley waved off her 15-year-old daughter, Becca, to meet Joshua Davies, a former boyfriend. Becca s hope was that the two of them would get back together, but it was not to be. By 3pm, oddly, she stopped answering her mobile. By 7:30 she was officially declared missing. And at 10am the following morning, while Sonia and the family were out searching, came the call that is every parent s worst nightmare. The police had found the body of a young girl in local woodland: she d been bludgeoned to death with a rock. But, as soon became clear, this was no crime of passion. Becca s death had apparently been many months in the planning, by a calculating, cold-blooded killer. From the immediate arrest of 16-year-old Joshua Davies, to the lengthy investigation and harrowing five week trial that convicted him, this book is both an expression of a mother s love and her pride in a daughter who had so much to live for, as well as an insight into the mind of a brutal murderer."