{"id":558891,"date":"2026-04-30T15:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/558891\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T15:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:15:07","slug":"isle-of-sheppey-killing-alexander-cashfords-teen-killers-sentenced-to-between-five-and-seven-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/558891\/","title":{"rendered":"Isle of Sheppey killing: Alexander Cashford&#8217;s teen killers sentenced to between five and seven years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What did the Crown Prosecution Service say at conviction?published at 14:46 BST<\/p>\n<p>14:46 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-qs9kpv-Contributor etflsgg2\">Joshua Askew<br \/>Journalist, South East<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The three teenagers were convicted in February of killing Alexander Cashford on a Kent beach. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following the weeks-long trial at Woolwich Crown Court, Natalie Smith, from the Crown Prosecution Service, called the attack by the girl, 16, and two boys, aged 15 and 16, &#8220;pre-planned, deliberate and violent&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added at the time that Cashford was &#8220;not expecting it&#8221; and &#8220;could not defend himself&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cHe was first hit from behind with a bottle and despite his best attempts to flee, he was relentlessly pursued and attacked, even when witnesses reported he was lying on the ground,&#8221; said Smith. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cTheir joint actions on that fateful evening led to Alexander Cashford\u2019s death,&#8221; she continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;His family now at least have the comfort of knowing that those responsible have been brought to justice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What did the Crown Prosecution Service say at conviction?published at 14:46 BST 14:46 BST Joshua AskewJournalist, South East&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-558891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}