A new documentary on Alex Rodda’s murder Alex Rodda airs on ITV this evening.
Social Media Murders: The Case of Alex Rodda, will look at the way the internet played a an important role in the investigation and will hear from family, friends and experts on their opinions about what transpired nearly two years ago.
Who was Alex Rodda?
Alex Rodda was a 15-year-old schoolboy who was brutally killed.
He was a student in Holmes Chapel High School, Cheshire.
Alex passed away on 12 December on the 12th of December, 2019, at the hands by Matthew Mason, who was 18 , at the time.
He murdered a schoolboy Alex in the woods of Cheshire because he was afraid he’d reveal their sexual affair.
What did he do?
Mason attracted his victim Alex by using an “pretense of sexual activity” before hitting him with “cold blood”.
Alex was later discovered partially clothed by refuse collectors following the time Alex was reported missing.
Who is Alex Rodda and why was the murder of him?
The 15-year-old boy who attended Holmes Chapel High School was an extremely popular young man who was gay and open about it.
For Alex finding out the person he really was could be an exciting voyage of discovery. At just fifteen years old, he seemed uninformed, and that led him to be vulnerable, and ultimately fatally, to the teenage only a few years younger than him.
Matthew Mason, then 18 was in an unofficial relationship with Alex on the internet. Soon, he started sending explicit photos before they changed to sexual.
Alex Alex, who was from Pickmere, Knutsford, was an openly gay and friendly. Mason seemed quiet. He came a member of an elite churchgoing family. an active, farmer’s son who had quit high school to go to college.
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Believing that his sexual relationships with Alex who was not yet the legal age for consent, could be exposed, Mason paid his lover nearly PS2,000 cash to cover up the relationship.
When Mason who was one of his girlfriends, was afraid that Alex was going to make a public appearance and entice him to death in a forest close to Altrincham.
He employed a wrench of heft to repeatedly hit Alex on the body and head by averaging 15 blows.
After the attack, Mason stayed with Alex’s body for an hour before departing the forest and catching up with his friends for a pint to establish a foundation for his defense.
Trolls
His life tragically ended in December 2019, when he was tragically killed.
When Alex was reported missing, his family and friends started sharing appeals on the internet to locate Alex.
Posts on Facebook were the subject of lots of attention, some of which steered officers into the wrong way.
Numerous accounts began contacting them under Russian names, and claiming to had kidnapped Alex.
As time passed as Alex’s family and close friends began to become more concerned The accounts claimed to contain Alex in the back of the van’. threatened to sell Alex, and then sent cruel homophobic and sexist comments about him.The documentary showed that Alex’s family members and friends drove to warehouses to search for Alex who believed that Russians were in control of him and planned to murder him.
When Cheshire Police hunted down the IP addresses of the accounts, they found the accounts were actually trolls engaged in an extremely sly joke.
Grooming
Mason began to communicate with Alex on the internet after they became “Facebook friends”.
The seemingly casual approach became sexually explicit, and he began sending sexually explicit photos that he himself sent to Alex on a regular in a daily basis, the documentary exposes.
He also uploaded videos of him in his 15th year of sexual activity.
As a young teen, Alex was playing with sexuality, Alex didn’t realize the danger he was placed in.
The people who loved him could tell the way the boy was being groomed.
Alex was desperate to let go and let the world know about his new love affair However, Mason kept him in the dark.
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https://www.inyourarea.co.uk/widgets/established/general?fixedheight&webreachnews&theme=manchestereveningnews He made payments to him, by instalments that ranged from PS50 or PS200 at one time, and eventually gave him more than PS2,000.
On the show, the characters of Alex were crying as they recounted the events he experienced when he struggled in his first relationship.
Adam Sr.’s father, Adam is also a voice of sadness, as he realized that his son was a victim for a man that tried to silence him by offering him money.
Social media
Alex Rodda
As with many teenagers of the age social media was a crucial aspect of Alex’s daily life.
From sharing photos to Snapchat to FaceTiming friends and even FaceTiming his friends, he rarely went out without his mobile.
In this instance the social media was the role of exposing his vulnerability.
It enabled Mason to gain easy access to Alex and also allowed his grooming behavior to become a habit.
Mason made use of Snapchat to share intimate pictures to Alex in full knowledge that the algorithm used by the app allowed messages to be deleted after a specified time.
