Boy plans his own murder in chatroom
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- sublocked
Disgusting...if he were older would this be considered performance art? :(
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.u…
A schoolboy posed as a female British secret service spy in an internet chatroom to persuade a friend to try to murder him, a court heard yesterday.
The boy, John, now 15, groomed a 16-year-old boy, Mark (both pseudonyms to protect the children), with an "elaborate matrix of deceit" involving six fictional characters in the MSN chatroom and correspondence totalling 56,000 lines of text.
The fictions created by John, then 14, convinced Mark that he was murdering someone who had a terminal brain tumour. He was told that his reward would be money, a job as a British secret service agent and sex with the spy, whom he believed was a middle-aged woman.
In fact, John was determined to get himself killed, which is why he never used the abort code - 6969 - that he provided.
Manchester Crown Court heard that John, who had fallen in love with Mark, also tricked him into performing sex acts on a webcam before tricking him into stabbing him twice in an alleyway at Altrincham on 29 June last year. Though John's life was in the balance for a time, he did not die and was released from hospital after a week.
Over a nine-month period before the attempted murder, John began presenting himself as a 16-year-old girl in search of a cyber relationship, then "introduced" himself as the girl's step-brother. John and Mark then physically met, as did their parents, but in the chatroom John introduced increasingly far-fetched characters, including another boy who "stalked" John and supposedly killed his girlfriend. Another of the characters was then fictitiously killed off, leaving only Mark, John and the stalker.
Other characters emerged and were killed off, one even came back from the dead. But by the time of a crucial chatroom conversation on 28 June, John was still convinced by the order - from the "spy" - to kill Mark. John asked the "spy": U want me 2 take him 2 trafford centre [shopping centre, near Manchester] and kill him in the middle of the trafford centre?? thats wot ur asking me?
Mark replied: Yes
John: And just leave him 2 die in the trafford centre?
Mark: No stay with him
John: And wot do I do then? Get help?
Mark: Yes I'll get help for you.
The following day the two boys met and went to the Trafford Centre where they bought a kitchen knife. They then went to Altrincham town centre where Mark stabbed John twice, once in the chest and once in the stomach.
Mark called the ambulance and told police officers they had been attacked but after CCTV footage disproved his story, he was charged with attempted murder. Police only became aware of the labyrinthine plot when they examined John's computer. After months of analysis, detectives were able to establish that it was John who sent the final messages from his home computer on the night of 28 June 2003 and had planned his own murder.
Mark pleaded guilty to attempted murder, was given a two-year supervision order and banned from any contact with John. John pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice and incitement to murder. He was given a three-year supervision order, banned from any contact with Mark and was told he must only access the internet under adult supervision and must not enter chatrooms.
Passing sentence Judge Maddison said: "Skilled writers of fiction would struggle to conjure up a plot such as that which arises here. It's staggering to be dealing with a case that arises out of a 14-year-old boy's invention of false personalities, false relationships and events arranged for his own killing." He told Mark: "So convincingly were the characters presented to you that you really did believe you had been recruited by the Secret Service to kill your co-accused and face the consequences if you did not do so."
Detective Chief Inspector Julian Ross said John's actions remained baffling. "He says he is unhappy at home, but there is nothing we are aware of."
- sikma0
thats nothing compared to the stuff that happens on an average day here
- sublocked0
QBN: an "elaborate matrix of deceit"
- Vicentvangogh0
Fouty?
- rounce0
I'm pretty sure I saw a documentary about this about 3 years ago...
- Llyod0
I killed Dusty.
- KwesiJ0
to quote myself in another forum with a different name... "trolls are a microcosm of the larger matrix of deception"
- sublocked0
epic trolling huh?
- Jnr_Madison0
He was a jobby stabber too?
- OSFA0
'fictional characters' pffftttt how lame, don't bring that nonsense to a serious forum like this!
- rounce0
Gotta love the abort code, looks like he was looking to get stabbed somewhere else.
- mistermik0
mental.
- Doorman0
they killed Kenny?
- drgss0
it was me
- chossy0
What a nightmare he wanted to get fucked in his dirt box but obviously he knew he couldn't live with the shame he might have felt so he wanted cut for it. All he needed to do if he wanted beefed frae a dude is go round Jnr's house and get a length frae him.