{"id":559998,"date":"2026-05-01T05:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T05:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/559998\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T05:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T05:27:13","slug":"teens-sentenced-over-alexander-cashford-beach-death-in-sheppey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/559998\/","title":{"rendered":"Teens sentenced over Alexander Cashford beach death in Sheppey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prosecutors said Cashford was chased and hit with rocks and a bottle before he was found lying face down in the mud.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This was a carefully pre-planned deliberate and violent attack on someone&#8230; who could not defend himself,&#8221; Natalie Smith, from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Despite his best attempts to flee, he was relentlessly pursued and attacked, even when witnesses reported he was lying on the ground.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cashford, an electrician, had more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx2l66gdzk4o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">30 external injuries on his body<\/a>, the jury heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During the sentencing at the Old Bailey, his parents said they were &#8220;crushed&#8221; by what had happened to their &#8220;kind, friendly and compassionate&#8221; son.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They called his killing &#8220;cruel, unnecessary and pointless&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prosecutors said Cashford was chased and hit with rocks and a bottle before he was found lying face&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-559998","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\/559998","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=559998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}