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Distraught mum’s tribute to ‘caring, kind, beautiful’ son
A HEARTBROKEN mum whose teenage son was found murdered in a field paid tribute yesterday to “my beautiful boy”.
Detectives were last night questioning an 18-year-old over the death of Alex Rodda, 15. Mum Lisa wept on her doorstep as she told the Sunday People: “I wish he had not been so trusting. Everybody loved Alex. He was caring and kind.”
She added: “Alex was my beautiful son, but he was naive. He just trusted people when, perhaps, he shouldn’t have done.”
Distraught Lisa 50, said: “I am heartbroken.” Neighbours said her mum’s agony began on Thursday night when Alex went missing.
Friends say he and the teenager under arrest on suspicion of murder were known to each other and had met, “six or seven times before”.
One said: “I think Alex was too open and someone has taken advantage of his
UN climate talks appeared to falter yesterday as delegates failed to agree.
One described a new draft text as “totally unacceptable”. Alden Meyer, from the Union of Concerned Scientists said the situation in Madrid was unprecedented since climate negotiations began in 1991.
Negotiators are working towards a deal that would see countries commit to make new climate pledges by the end of 2020.
Yesterday a new draft text from the meeting nature.” Alex’s body was found at 8am on Friday. One neighbour said: “He loved being with his family. They all loved him because he was a real force.
“He was the most loving boy I know and everybody loved him. I cannot believe this has happened. Alex would not hurt anybody. Why would anybody do this to him?”
Paying tribute on social media, Emma Frith wrote: “Heartbroken is an understatement. Words cannot describe how we are feeling. Alex Rodda, sleep easy. We’ll always love you and will never forget that infectious smile that lit up a room and brightened everybody’s day.”
Detectives have not revealed how Alex died. The field is off a lane in the village of Ashley, in Cheshire, six miles from the teenager’s home in Knutsford. Det Chief Insp Simon Blackwell of Cheshire Police said: “Our thoughts are with Alex’s family at this extremely difficult time. I would like to reassure the community that this is believed to be an isolated incident.”
The 18-year-old man, from the area, was being held on suspicion of murder. was released designed to chart a way forward for the parties to the Paris agreement.
The 2015 Paris pact was aimed at keeping the global average temperature to well below 2C – regarded at the time as the threshold for dangerous global warming.
Scientists subsequently shifted the definition of the “safe” limit to a rise of 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.
Mr Meyer said: “The latest version of the Paris Agreement decision text put forward by the Chilean presidency is totally unacceptable.
“It has no call for countries to enhance the ambition of their emissions reduction commitments. If world leaders fail to increase ambition before next year’s climate summit in Glasgow they will make the task of meeting the Paris Agreement’s well below 2C temperature limitation goal, much less the 1.5 degrees Celsius goal, almost impossible.
“Never have I seen such almost total disconnection between what the science requires and the people of the world demand, and what negotiators are delivering.”
Climate activist Greta Thunberg retweeted his comments.