When Rebecca Aylward went to secondary school near her home in Maesteg, South Wales, she met Joshua Davies and the pair quickly hit it off and became firm friends. Rebecca and Joshua were both academic, worked hard and were soon top of the class in their results. Soon the pair began to date, but then there were concerns about Joshua's behaviour. Concerns that continued to grow, but nobody could have predicted that Joshua was capable of extreme violence. And murder. Writing Credit: Megan Grant. See Megan's work on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/megathachristie/?igshid=MmIzYWVlNDQ5Yg%3D%3D Find out more about the UK True Crime Podcast: https://uktruecrime.com Join me at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/UKTrueCrime Buy my book 'Gone Fishing' about serial killer Angus Sinclair https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gone-Fishing-Unsolved-Crimes-Sinclair/dp/1914277201 Sources 1.    http://www.islandfarm.wales 2.    https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/2720523/mystery-small-welsh-town-bridgend-23-men-committed-suicide-one-year/ 3.    Aylward-murder-trial-Mother-Sonia-Oatley-talks-sinister-killer-Josh-Davies.html">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2023012/Rebecca-Aylward-murder-trial-Mother-Sonia-Oatley-talks-sinister-killer-Josh-Davies.html 4.    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/rebecca-aylward-murder-mother-murdered-3464578 5.    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breakfast-bet-killer-plays-at-murder-145071 6.    https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/schoolboy-killer-plotted-three-ways-16262804 7.    killer-15-bludgeoned-ex-girlfriend-death-applies-early-release.html">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6219191/Teenage-killer-15-bludgeoned-ex-girlfriend-death-applies-early-release.html 8.    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bye-mam-love-you-heartbroken-3918187 9.    https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/rebecca-aylwards-mother-tells-hatred-1814686 10. photo-Joshua-Davies-acting-strangling-killing-Rebecca-Aylward.html">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2021071/Facebook-photo-Joshua-Davies-acting-strangling-killing-Rebecca-Aylward.html 11. Davies-16-dared-Facebook-friends-murder-Rebecca-Aylward.html">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2019409/Joshua-Davies-16-dared-Facebook-friends-murder-Rebecca-Aylward.html 12. https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/jul/27/rebecca-aylward-murder-joshua-davies 13. https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/joshua-davies-jailed-minimum-14-1808680 14. https://www.nationaldahelpline.org.uk/en/What-is-abuse 15. https://www.ncdv.org.uk/domestic-abuse-statistics-uk/ 16.https://safelives.org.uk/sites/default/files/resources/Safe%20Young%20Lives%20web.pd17. https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/article/the-dark-side-of-social-media-deception-obsession-and-murder 18. https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/schoolboy-killer-joshua-davies-finally-15311092 19. https://www.hsdl.org/c/looking-back-air-cargo-bomb-plot-foiled-on-october-29-2010/