RAPED AND KILLED AGED 15
AT the age of 15, Kayleigh Haywood was groomed online and then raped and killed in a forest.
After being contacted on Facebook by paedophile Luke Harlow in November 015, the pair exchanged ,643 increasingly explicit messages via text and online over a 13-day period.
Kayleigh, from Measham, Leicestershire, ended up meeting up with Harlow and being plied with alcohol. The paedophile was then joined by neighbour Stephen Beadman. The schoolgirl was held prisoner by the pair for six hours before being raped in the woods by Beadman. He then killed the teenager with a brick.
Beadman was sentenced to a minimum term of 35 years, while Harlow was jailed for 1 years for sexual touching and falsely imprisoning Kayleigh.
The judge at the trial said the case highlighted the dangers young social media users faced.