Moment a paedophile lies to police after throwing a 10-year-old boy off a 100-foot cliff when confronted about raping his little sister

THIS is the moment a paedophile lied to police after throwing a boy off a 100-foot cliff after the 10-year-old confronted him about raping his sister.

54-year-old Anthony Stocks had taken care of the young girl and attacked her behind a garage while confessing his “love” to her.

When Stocks was confronted by the rape victim’s brother, he threw him off a cliff in Brighton onto a concrete path below to keep his cruel secret.

Horrified witnesses heard a “scream” before seeing a “small figure” fall to the ground.

Amazingly, the boy survived the fall, but was flown to hospital by helicopter with serious injuries.

The police initially assumed it was a “terrible accident,” but later a “far grimmer picture” emerged.

Stocks has now been found guilty of four counts of sexual abuse of a child under the age of 13, as well as one count each of inducing or inciting a child under the age of 13 to engage in sexual conduct, rape and attempted murder.

Shocking footage shows the attempted murderer lying to police after throwing the boy out.

As rescue workers gather at the base of the cliff, Stocks appears calm as he speaks to police.

Stocks claims he warned the boy not to walk too close to the edge, adding: “Then he just fell.”

After the brave girl told her brother about the sexual assault, Oxford Crown Court accepted its horror.

When Stocks found out about it, he told her, “I’m going to push him off a cliff. I want to get rid of him so we can be together.”

On September 24, he arranged a trip for the boy to London to visit Stamford Bridge – the home of his beloved Chelsea FC.

The boy’s sister was overwhelmed by Stocks’ threat and begged her brother not to go, but he went anyway.

Stocks, who boasted to a psychiatrist that he would marry the girl, later travelled with the schoolboy by train to Brighton.

Prosecutor Zoe Johnson KC said he then pushed him off the cliff with the intention of killing him.

She added: “The defendant may have immediately regretted his actions – but when he pushed the victim, it was the culmination of a plan to get the boy out of the way so he could no longer intervene.”

Witness Anthony Boulding said the boy appeared to be “having fun” as he and Stocks ran across a grassy edge to the top of the cliffs.

But about ten minutes later he heard a noise and then saw a figure “falling down as if it had been thrown” from a great height.

He and a friend made their way to the concrete path under the cliff and saw the injured boy.

Stocks had not fled, but had joined the citizens who had rushed to help.

One spectator recalled Stocks saying, “I told him not to go to the edge,” before sitting down to roll a cigarette.

The boy was sedated and flown by helicopter to a London hospital, where he had to be resuscitated and placed in an artificial coma.

Due to the “extremely severe trauma” he suffered, the boy could not remember the fall itself, the court was told.

The prosecutor added: “The child described the cliff and how he saw the beach below him. He remembered looking down and seeing how steep it was.”

“He believed he had stood there for between three and five minutes. He remembered the two wires of the fence in front of him. He could touch them, they reached up to his waist, and above them he could see the beach. The defendant was walking beside him and standing slightly behind him.

“He told police, ‘I either slipped or was pushed.’ The next thing he knew, he was in the hospital.”

Stocks was originally arrested on suspicion of child neglect and causing or allowing serious injury to a child.

He was later arrested again on suspicion of sexual conduct with a child under 13 and rape of a child under 13.

At the beginning of Stocks’ police interview, his lawyer read a prepared statement which said: “I am not sexually attracted to children and have neither attempted nor instigated any sexual activity with children.”

The girl told police that she was “afraid” of Stocks and had not spoken to anyone except her younger brother about the sexual assault.

When asked why she told him, she replied: “So he could help me.”

Stocks denied sexual abuse and rape of a girl under 13, as well as attempted murder of the boy and child abuse.

The verdict will be announced at a later date.