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Ranmaru Mori
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Teenagers Deny Killing Alleged Sex Abuser
10:08pm Tuesday September 28, 2010
Graham Fitzgerald
A 14-year-old girl killed a "dirty paedophile" who she said had abused her, the Old Bailey has been told.
She and a boy, also 14, stabbed Robert Daley after the Crown Prosecution Service decided to drop the case against him. The girl had complained to police, along with her 16-year-old sister and a woman, all of whom said Mr Daley had sexually assaulted them. But she had not made a statement and prosecutors then decided no charges should be brought in relation to any of the allegations.
After her arrest, the girl said she had first been abused by 45-year-old Daley at the age of 12 but it had been a year since he last sexually assaulted her. "She called Robert Daley a dirty paedophile," said Jonathan Rees, QC, prosecuting. She told police that she and the boy had gone to his house to "hustle" him for some money and he had "started to grope her" in the kitchen. The boy came in, picked up a knife, and stabbed him a few times but Mr Daley would not let go.
He tried to reach for a weapon for himself so the boy stabbed him again, the girl claimed. Mr Daley, who lived in Stockwell, south London, was told the case had been dropped on the day he died.
He denied all the claims. He had telephoned the 16-year-old and received a text back saying: "Stop calling and texting me... You are a perverted man and I can never forgive you."
It is alleged she then rang the two defendants who made their way to Mr Daley's home. Mr Rees said five minutes after they arrived Mr Daley had been stabbed five times in the side, with two of the blows piercing his heart. The boy and girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons and are now both 15, deny murder on April 23. The trial continues.
