May 29, 2004

Bizarre story

Boy used chat room to get himself killed
This is easily the most bizarre story i have read for a few years... in Britain a 15-year-old boy (John) played a pretty scary mind game with a friend of his (who he fell in love with, called Mark) through Internet chat. He introduced himself as a teenage girl, then invented fictious secret agents, who instructed poor Mark to kill John "promising him a gun, a large sum of money and a meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair as a reward". Mark than actually stabbed him and nearly succeeded in killing him, but he got scared and called the police. They lied to the police, but then the chat logs were found and the whole story discovered.

" Some of his inspiration came from James Bond films and the science-fiction blockbuster Men In Black."

"Mark admitted attempted murder and was given a two-year supervision order. The boys were also banned from contacting each other. John was ordered to use the internet only under supervision and told that he must never go into a chat room again."

Posted by Kati at May 29, 2004 05:39 PM
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