Killer's 999 Call: His Throat Was Properly Cut

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In a chilling emergency call after tying up and killing Breck Bednar, Lewis Daynes said he needed police and a "forensic team" sent to his home.

The 19-year-old computer engineer calmly went on give his story, even interrupting the operator when she questioned him so he could finish his point.

"My friend and I got into an altercation and I'm the only one who came out alive," he said

Daynes claimed his 14-year-old victim had "picked up a pen-knife and lost control", leaving him with no choice but to act in self-defence.

During the phone call, he calmly said: "I put my arm up to block him from stabbing me and got him to the ground. He got up, I stabbed him once in the back of the neck, I believe somewhere near the brain stem.

"The fight ended with me cutting his throat. He fell face first on my bed. I tried to stop the bleeding, he fell on the floor. His throat was properly cut."

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On the day Breck Bednar was visiting Lewis Daynes, the killer suggested that he lied to his parents about where he was going, and emailed an elaborate cover story

Daynes had created a web of lies to "influence, coerce and control vulnerable teenage boys"

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The computer engineer had promised the 14-year-old a prominent position in his "business empire"

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To gain Breck's trust, Daynes promised an £85m payment once they had met up

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It is believed the computer engineer had bound Breck's wrists and ankles with this duct tape before stabbing him in the neck

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Daynes was jailed for a minimum of 25 years for the murder on Monday.

Two months before Breck was murdered, his mother had called the police, concerned that her teenage son was being "increasingly controlled" online.

Although she was aware of Daynes she did not know he had been investigated by police for rape and attempted rape against a 15-year-old victim in 2011 - allegations which were later dropped.

Emails released by Essex Police show Daynes to be a "manipulative individual" who promised Breck would "never have to worry about financial security" if he did research about computing on a school holiday in Spain, with promises of an £85m payment once they had met up.

He had also told Breck to tell his father that he was going to meet a 14-year-old friend who used to go to his high school, following months of messages persuading Breck to distance himself from loved ones.

"In casual conversation to have your father afford more support to you, just say 'I've spent too many half-terms and holidays indoors, I'm going to spend this one outside with friends'. That should allow you to go," Daynes wrote in an email.

Daynes had submerged computer equipment in water by the time police arrived at his flat, in a bid to conceal evidence.

Detective Inspector Anne Cameron said: "He used his substantial computer expertise and his knowledge of the world of social media to control everyone he came into contact with in his virtual world.

"He controlled access to this world jealously and spent a great deal of time building up his online persona - pretending to be an entrepreneur in order to influence, coerce and control vulnerable teenage boys to exploit them."

"Breck Bednar was an innocent 14-year-old boy who had placed his trust in a man he considered to be a friend. Daynes abused that trust in the most horrific way possible, and has shown no remorse."

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