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The following report appeared in today's Daily Telegraph:
Internet boy convicted of grooming his own killer
A 15-year-old grammar school boy yesterday became the first person in Britain to be convicted of inciting someone to murder him.
The boy, who can be identified only by the pseudonym John, invented a cast of characters in an internet chatroom as part of an elaborate plan to commission his own murder.
Some of his inspiration came, from James Bond films and the science fiction blockbuster Men in Black.
He was 14 when he fell in love with Mark, a boy two years older, and adopted the guise of a female secret service agent to order his friend to stab him in a suburban alleyway. Mark was meant to end his life with the words: “I love you, bro’.”
Mark carried out the stabbing in Altrincham, Cheshire, shortly before 8 pm on June 29 last year.
It emerged that John had introduced himself to Mark, on the internet as a teenage girl. Mark performed sexual acts for the “girl” on a webcam which John watched.
Later John introduced a series of other characters to the chatroom, including a second girlfriend, a stalker and two secret service agents modelled on Bond films.
One of the agents, identified as Agent 47695, told Mark she had been assigned to protect John. Later she ordered Mark to kill the boy, promising him as a reward a gun, a large sum of money and a meeting with the Prime Minister.
John, wearing a check shirt, pale blue tie and dark trousers, sat crying in the dock as the incredible story was told. Mark, in a blue and white jumper, sat a few feet away.
John pleaded guilty to inciting someone to murder him – a crime described by Judge David Maddison as “extraordinary” – and perverting the course of justice. He was sentenced to a three-year supervision order.
Mark admitted attempted murder and was given a two-year supervision order. The boys were also banned from contacting each other. John was ordered only yo use the internet under supervision and told that he must never go into a chatroom again.
Judge Maddison, the Recorder of Manchester, said: “Skilled writers of fiction would struggle to conjure up a plot such as this
“It is 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 at the hands of a 16-year-old boy whom he had met via an interact chatroom.”
I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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