Every story John spun on the chat-room site, every slithering creation dropped into the ocean of the Internet, Mark avidly reeled in. At the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean lay a "huge massive safe" containing "the worlds richest jewels." At the time. It will not allow anyone else.". Despite the devastating effect the ordeal had on Boy A, Mr Ross said he did A great deal of thought went into her gestation. Mark once again obliged. "I was surprised Mark believed it all," John would later admit. At no point could I find he made a mistake." In contrast to such frightening cunning, the blundering stupidity of Markthe actual knife wieldercomes as something of a relief. A criminal intelligence analyst, Sally Hogg, pored over 58,000 lines of text generated between them in six weeks. Posing as the spy on the internet, and promising him sex and cash, Boy B sent messages to Boy A to stab him to death. Advertisement From John's laptop emerged what the prosecutor would subsequently describe as "an Internet soap opera moving from one scene to another, each character and story line more fantastic than the last." "I just thought, It could have been my son," she says. Much later, after months of wrong turns and huge confusion, the police would be very impressed by his skill. Then on June 28 Janet told Mark that he had to kill the younger boy. Writing only in capital letters, Janet convinced Mark she was a spy and he was the reason she had joined the chat room, to recruit him into MI5. Almost nothing consequential came out, as the lawyer representing the Manchester Evening News, the Daily Mail, and The Sun complained. The character Rachel is writing to Mark: This passage incensed Manchester authorities. There was Rachel, the 16-year-old whom Mark had grown close to; John (the victim) was her stepbrother; Kevin the decidedly creepy self-proclaimed stalker and finally Janet the spy mistress. For one thing, Agent Dobinson was promising extraordinary rewards for his service to the Crown: 80 million, she estimated, sexual favors, a career in the intelligence service cemented by a contract. For their protection, the true identity of these boys cannot be revealed, they are simply known as John (14) and Mark (16). They then went to Altrincham town centre where Mark stabbed John twice, once in the chest and once in the stomach. If he completed his mission hed become a member of the British Secret Service, receive 80 million, meet Tony Blair (the then PM), the Queen and receive sexual favours from Janet, a 44-year-old married woman who lived a double life for Queen and country. Even though, thanks to the Internet, anyone who wishes can access all relevant information. These messages included the following exchange: 'Spy' (in reality Boy B): could you stab someone? Footage captured of the alley entrance showed that no one else had entered it except John and Mark. "This case serves as a stark warning of the dangers of the dark side of the internet," Nicholas Clarke, prosecuting, told the court yesterday. And quite a few demands. As Hogg sorted for clues through the stacks of transcripts of Internet chat, however, she noticed a repetition of a certain word. "Your Lordship may think he would make a very good barrister." All of it? 2023 Cond Nast. 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. A 16-year-old boy has been stabbed to death in Manchester. That girl was in fact the younger boy.". Of these invented creatures, the most passionate and durable was the high-ranking spy Dobinson. The next day, 29 June 2003, Boy A carried out Boy B's orders "to the letter", the court heard. AETNUK All Rights Reserved. Odd that Dobinson used it. Early 20s, wearing a black hooded jacket and black jeans. On the one hand, the teenager was, as he would later acknowledge, "loving it." Police are investigating after a boy who admitted killing his friend took a video of himself in a toilet during his murder trial making stabbing actions. Mark never noticed. "The aim of it all was to find Janet Dobinson," says Ross. John was careful to find an excuse for a certain character to disappear so a new one could enter the online chat. Next to it is the headline BOY STABBED. His e-mail addresses contain no hint of his real name. Friday 3 December 2021, 5:53pm. In John's small bedroom, which overlooks a small garden of aloe and yew, the boys played videos. ", And so John crumpled, a drained, pallid figure muted forever, he thought, by the tall, light-haired boy he considered "perfect" and "out of my league.". And, on occasion, guilty. John was worth exactly 568 billion. said. "There is nothing you would see in these boys that is different from any "Yes," came the reply. "John said he invented other personas in the chat room in order to keep Mark interested in him," one therapist was later to learn. put her head under water. "And that caused us some major concern," Ross says. He remembers sitting on the stairs of this more confined house, listening to his mother weeping in the living room. Manchester Grammar School pupil Yousef Makki was attacked in Hale Barns, Greater Manchester, on 2 . 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. But "the problem with the MSN chat room is we didn't know whether there were, say, 98 individuals or one person using 98 e-mail addresses.". wondered Mark. He is believed to be known to the victims. Jakub Szymanski was taken to hospital. "Call an ambulance!" He seemed to have half expected their arrival. Murderers? As Clarke spoke about how John had manipulated the older boy, deploying a stream of imaginary virtual characters to lure Mark into carrying out his murder, he sneaked a look at Mark's face. An all-points bulletin was issued by Detective Chief Inspector Julian Ross, 43, a terse, authoritative figure with an iron jaw and a manner to match. A deliberate stylistic variation of "maybe," shared by four supposedly different people. "The amount of data on those two computers was about 133 gigabytes, masses of data," Sally Hogg, a police analyst, tells me. Janet asked Mark in the final chatroom exchange. Shortly after her appearance, John suddenly emerged in the chat room as himself (saying that he was Rachel's brother), and these two were followed by still other fantastical alter egos equipped with wild backgrounds but dull, repetitive names: Lyndsey East, Rachel East, Kevin McGregory, Dave McNeil, Janet Dobinson. Detectives launched a murder inquiry after a mother and son were both stabbed at a house in Miles. The 17-year-old boy, known only as Boy A . John would later concede that he knew exactly how much he had traumatized Mark by engineering the death of Rachel and permitting the ostensible killer to describe her last moments to Mark himself: "Kicked all her stomach. Other characters emerged and were killed off, one even came back from the dead. A 16-year-old boy who was fatally stabbed in Manchester has been named by police as Kennie Carter. Mark pleaded guilty to attempted murder, was given a two-year supervision order and banned from any contact with John. Then Mark should call an ambulancebut "not st8 away." Paramedics called police to an address on Bednal Avenue, in the Miles Platting area,at 9.30pm on Thursday. Sometimes John would approach their bedroom and listen quietly, his ear pressed to the door. Then the stepfather packed up when John was seven, and he, his mother, and his younger sister had to move to a smaller house. A 15-year-old boy has been killed and his mother injured after they were both stabbed at a house in Manchester. A murder investigation is underway after a 14-year-old boy was stabbed to death in a "ferocious attack." He was injured alongside his mother, 40, who is currently in hospital. Mark. There he wielded control over everythingespecially his laptop. Police only became aware of the labyrinthine plot when they examined John's computer. 02:12 AEDT 29 May 2004, King Charles hosts von der Leyen at Windsor Castle, Biden claims ICU nurse would whisper in his ear and BREATH on him, Gabor Mat: No Jewish state without oppressing local population, Amplified jet stream could lead to 'disruptive snow in places', Dashcam captures moment two cars collide on a roundabout, Putin orders intelligence service to find 'scum' who oppose him, Putin spy plane before being 'destroyed by pro-Ukraine Belarus group', Huge urgent police search for missing baby of Constance Marten, Moment police swooped to arrest Constance Marten's boyfriend, Police: Constance and lover arrested on suspicion of manslaughter, AFA president gives passionate rant speaking about student debt, Police search allotment sheds for Constance Marten's missing baby. Eight months later he began spending a lot more time on the Internet, the teenager said. Nonetheless, he is certain of Mark's sincerity. The following day the two boys met and went to the Trafford Centre where they bought a kitchen knife. For example, although the media had named John as a stabbing victim and published his photograph less than a year earlier, no one in Britain would ever be allowed to learn that he had tried to engineer his own execution that hot June day in Goose Green: "As far as the public in south Manchester are concerned there is at large a crazed knifeman who murderously attacked a 14-year-old," said the newspaper lawyer. He was never in any trouble and was close to his family. says Goldberg, John's lawyer. Police have not linked any of the incidents. For the past six months, Mark had communicated with a variety of people on the chat room, a site dedicated to Manchester teenagers. Also, John is certain that people are always talking about him once they believe him to be out of earshot. Authorities allege she fatally stabbed John Glennon on Friday in Manchester, New Hampshire. Around the time of this incident, she slipped into her son's room and checked his laptop, where she found that Mark was a frequent on-screen presence. When he stopped going downstairs for meals, his slight frame shrank even further. "It is a tragic event that a 14-year-old boy would try to have someone kill him. Asked if anyone had ever been able to exert control over his private thoughts, the boy said yes. "It has to be big to stab him and make him bleed to death.". 'Skilled writers of fiction would struggle to conjure up a plot such as that which arises here.'. The stab wounds still pain him. (As things turned out, John would never utter the abort code to Mark: "Well I knew that he had to do it because I sort of told him," he later told police.). With whom could he discuss the activities of his imaginary heroines and villains? Once John had introduced himself as Rachel's brother, the two boys just clicked, John was later to explain. "Don't say that," begged Mark. A 15-year-old boy has been hailed a "hero" by his family after he died amid reports he tried to step in and save his mother during a stabbing at a house. The modem was removed from John's laptop and the computer itself exiled to her room. A 44-year-old man was arrested in Kent on Friday night on. The boy - who is now 15 and can be referred to only as John for legal reasons - persuaded his friend, known as Mark, now 17, to stab him to death in order to pass a fictitious initiation test for. A new feeling took hold: "Wanting my life to end" was how John described it. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. John's family lives in a neat two-story brick house with a white front door; above it a thread of blue paint edges a six-pointed star composed of leaded glass. At 13, upon receiving a laptop from his mother (a homework enhancer, she thought), John became a habitu of the Internet. A "matrix of deceit" is how the prosecution described John's maneuvers to engineer his own death, inveigling an unsuspecting friend into "a web of deception." Certainly John possessed the determination and industry necessary for success. The boy was, no mistaking it, aghast. A 16-year-old boy is 'lucky to be alive' after he was set upon by a group of strangers and stabbed inside Next at a popular Manchester shopping centre. John had created the fantasy that led to his own stabbing. Dobinson was, as Mark had been informed, 44 and authoritative. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said the teenager was found suffering from stab wounds on. John's mother discovered her son was at the home of an older boy named Mark, about whom she knew nothing. He misses him terribly, even while recognizing, as he puts it, "the friendship with Mark was fake." That, however, was not how it seemed at the time. "And so if you are talking about safety, that's one of the big dangers. Mark was no help at all. "Brilliant for an e-mail chat! Not at home: "It doesn't suit me, being part of a family environment, being sucked in," he says. Disaster awaited one young female character, it was noticed, whenever a love-struck Mark attempted to rendezvous with her ("which could not happen due to her not existing," as David Boulger, a probation officer, crisply observed in his report). | He was given a three-year supervision order, banned from contacting Mark or using the internet without strict adult supervision. He took a cocktail stick and scraped it against his wrist. It is this demand that catches my eye when I open the 15 pounds of chat-room text that I had received. "Just wanted to be on the Internet, that's all that mattered." A girl in distress, a homosexual blackmailer, a genial schoolboy, a top spy, a rapist, and a murderereveryone checked in regularly with the alternately enraptured and horrified teenager Mark. The older boy's gullible nature stirred in him conflicting emotions: love foremost, but very likely also a shade of contempt. "How cud I have been there when i didnt kno where she woz," the bewildered adolescent wrote back. Everything is as it was that June day when Mark carried the six-inch knife they had bought together. He brought into play Janet Dobinson"a spy, said John. Then Mark pulled out the knife and called an ambulance. THE CAMBRIDGE GRAMMAR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Rodney Huddleston Geoffrey K. Pullum The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language Rodney Huddleston Geoffrey K. Pullum in collaboration with Laurie Bauer Betty Birner Ted Briscoe Peter Collins David Denison David Lee Anita Mittwoch Geoffrey Nunberg Frank Palmer John Payne Peter Peterson Lesley Stirling . If John was being eaten away by his passion for the Internet world, Mark was devoured. "Shush. School, despite his excellent grades, was equally desolate. It is clear he doesn't have much sympathy for the boy whose brush with death prompted the unprecedented charge. Four months after the stabbing, the charges were amended. Detective Chief Inspector Julian Ross of the Greater Manchester police force gazed at the mountains of chat-room printouts in utter dismay. "Mark must have known at some point that these characters were not real," he later told a therapist. They were ordered never to meet again and they could only go on the Internet with supervision and never onto chat rooms. She was previously CEO of News International from 2009 to 2011 and was the youngest editor of a British national newspaper at News of the World, from 2000 to 2003, and the first female editor of The Sun, from 2003 . The second was John himself. He was expecting to meet the prime minister, and be given a gun and up to 500,000 in cash. At school his geography teacher saw a change in her pupil. United States, about 18 miles (29 km) north of St. Louis, Missouri.The population was 25,676 at the 2020 census.It is a part of the River Bend area in the Metro-East . In July last year, Mark was charged with attempted murder. ", Detective Chief Inspector Julian Ross said John's actions remained baffling. Stand there a [minute] while i stab u?". The mere thought of Mark reduces the boy to tears. John had always been "a very gentle, slightly withdrawn personality," his lawyer, Jonathan Goldberg, would inform the prominent Manchester judge David Maddison in his courtroom, but harbored, despite his introversion, dreams of someday becoming a barrister himself. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? From his hospital bed, John said he had been stabbed by Mark but "he didn't know why". 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. A ring of pedophiles? Over the coming weeks, Janet spun her web of deceit, convincing Mark to carry out tests to prove his worthiness before hed be given his first official mission. Mark was now a suspect and after he was shown the CCTV footage, revealed the truth that he was the one who stabbed John. The lawyer suspects that, on being arrested, Mark "was still believing he was acting on behalf of the British secret service, and held a fear if he said anything he might be in danger himself.". ", "Erm I duno. 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. The 15-year-old died in hospital after being stabbed alongside his mother, who remains in a. (His Lordship, as it happened, did not.). By April 3, 2003, Mark had grown so smitten with the character Rachel, whom John had equipped with her own e-mail address (Rachel_@hotmail.com), that her creator grew alarmed. The fictions created by John, then 14, convinced Mark that he was murdering someone who had a terminal brain tumour. Although evidently preoccupied with problems at the most exalted levels of government ("Hiya Babes. "But these could not be described as any normal circumstances," he said. A teenager has been charged with murder after a 16-year-old boy was stabbed to death . It is instructive, for example, to analyze the dialogue of the character John called Janet Dobinson (No. "Yes, I'm not aware of any other case where somebody's incited somebody to murder themselves," Nicholas Clarke, the prosecutor, declares in his Manchester office, each syllable clipped with derision. Two of them ceased writing after meeting up with sorry fates: rape, murder, a coma, a baby born during the comaplot twists so messy and operatic that police had to provide themselves with stacks of names and huge piles of colored charts to sort things out. ", About his bent for invention John was manifestly ambivalent. However tragic for its victim, the condition also had devastating consequences for the British secret service, which needed John dead, she explained, in record time. In the months since the stabbing, he had been working out regularly at the juvenile-detention-center gym; he had grown muscular, hard. "That was the stumbling point for me. "In fact, I think MSN themselves should perhaps take some responsibility. At the time of the stabbing the alley led nowhere; it was cut off by a 40-foot drop. He said that under normal circumstances, the offences committed would have resulted in extremely lengthy custodial sentences. John would later claim that Mark had declared him to be "like a brother"but, as it turned out, he was a lot more than that. A 17-year-old boy died after a horror street fight involving more than 100 people including some armed with 'machetes' on Saturday night (Saturday, September 4) in East London. "He would become withdrawn. In Wythenshawe Hospital, where he spent more than a week, John asked to see a psychiatrist, but this was Britain, home of the dilatory National Health Service. A 15-year-old boy who died after he was stabbed in Miles Platting has been named by Greater Manchester police as Jakub Szymanski. "We couldn't get our heads around it." The house, which is estimated to be worth $400,000, lies in a slightly more prosperous neighborhood than the one inhabited by Mark's family, where each brick structure is an echo of its modest neighbor. Whilst the chat included usual teenage topics such as sports, movies and clothing, sex and masturbation was often the focus. 'Spy': well think please "I bottled it in," he told the Manchester psychiatrist Sue Bailey. To make matters worse, the police went out and arrested a shop assistant with the same name as one of the charactersonly, the poor girl was perfectly innocent. For instance, both liked Catch Me if You Can, a movie in which Leonardo DiCaprio plays an adolescent con man who effortlessly assumes multiple identities. The lawyer is distinctly impressed by his client. "I wanted to be dead," John told his therapisthe finally has one. Mark was a college student who worked part-time at a restaurant. "No offence but wot does she do neway?" If he were dead, he told his therapist much later, then nothing more could happen to him. Since seeing a psychologist, John's mother informed the court, John had been getting along nicely with her live-in companion. If the 14-year-old painstakingly arranged for his own execution in an MSN chat room and chose Mark for the job, it wasn't out of wickedness. "Paki" and "gay" were some of the names hurled at himthe first because "I think my dad must have been Asian," the second "because most of my friends were girls." When investigators seized Marks computer they found over 58,000 lines of text within the chat room. I didn't like it, I couldn't undo it, it was all fake, taking someone else in." Not a spelling or grammatical error, Hogg decided. And that raises the question: How much of this elaborately constructed Internet fantasy did Mark really believe, at heart? The boy - who is now 15 and can be referred to only as John for legal reasons - persuaded his friend, known as Mark, now 17, to stab him to death in order to pass a fictitious initiation test for the British secret services in a meticulously planned attack one Sunday evening last summer. Boy A: ok erm well i watch a lot of films. Though John's life was in the balance for a time, he did not die and was released from hospital after a week. Suddenly the "postman, ice cream man, teachers, drivers" were all revealed to be secret agents, checking to see if he, Mark, might be smart enough to join their ranks. Moreover, added the mother, despite his earlier homosexual leanings, John now had "a girlfriend." Plays Daisy Meredith in "Daisy Pulls It Off" play by Denise Deegan (Lyric Theatre, London, England, UK). Within short order, a devastated Mark was to learn his virtual girlfriend was deadgang-raped and then murdered by the mythical stalker and his cohorts. "And the public, in the submissions of the press, are entitled to be told the truth.". The female creations came across, police decided, as archetypes of femininity, and not simply to a 16-year-old mind. Yousef Makki, 17, a pupil at Manchester Grammar School, was stabbed by his friend, Joshua Molnar, aged 17 at the time, during a fight in upmarket . One final thing, both mothers told their sons. About these taunts, which were ceaseless in elementary school, he said nothing to anyone. Young Johnas the hopelessly credulous Mark was informed by the spy Dobinsonhad a slow-growing but terminal brain tumor. If Mark played his cards right, wrote John, "by may next year you will be a millionaire. The teenager was taken to hospital as well following his injuries but died around an hour after arriving. When pressed by police, the boy would finally concede, reluctantly and only after changing his story several times, that it was his best friend, Mark, who had stabbed him, though John said he had no idea why. That was how the child discovered that the man who had been living with his mother was not his father, as he had supposed. She added: "It sounds so far-fetched that he could have been absorbed by it but there was nothing in the body of the text that would have made him suspicious. Eventually, the time came when Janet asked Mark to carry out his mission. Dobinson, too, was interested in watching sexual activity via the Webcam. John returned to his laptop. Sometimes, as night falls over Greater Manchester, the ingenious adolescent returns to the place where he was stabbed last year, when he was 14. KROQ Weenie Roast is a multi-artist music concert, presented annually in May by the Los Angeles, California, modern rock radio station KROQ-FM.Since its beginning in 1993, it has been traditionally held on a Saturday in May or June, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been no editions of the festival since 2019. "Don't let that be the last thing you are saying. ", As for John, he, too, was getting what he wanted from his friend, as Dr. Smedley would later recount: "He described a feeling of emotional intimacy he had never experienced before.". "Incitement to murder," said the prosecutor. The attack left John, a promising grammar school student, close to death. Thus, the stories that emerged about John were a feeble compilation of bare-bones facts and judgments spoon-fed by the authorities. Even when John passed his exams (much to his surprise) and gained entrance to a prestigious grammar school, the names continued unabated. He believed that by doing so he would be recruited into the British secret service and would be rewarded with sex with the spy, a middle-aged woman, the court heard. Victoria Police previously said the boy was 16 years old but made a . But more than 500 pages of Internet-chat transcripts, 50 pages of psychological reports, and excerpts from a score of police interviews land in my possession. Crime news across America. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. The teenager was attacked just before 4:30pm on Saturday on one of the busiest shopping days of the year.. But this time John also was chargedwith inciting murder. In the meantime, Dobinson added, Mark was to make sure to buy the right type of knife. Detectives launched a murder inquiry after the teenage boy died following the stabbing . When it was unveiled in court, Mark couldnt believe hed been so gullible. The police officer who led the investigation said the boys' lives and the lives of their families had been devastated. Boy A: i haven't really thought about it This delay had also been an order Janet had provided, as it would have given John enough time to bleed to death. John's mother, a small, plump woman, who had experienced more than her share of life's anguish, felt a heightened sense of alarm. Intriguingly, the boy never spoke up at this point to reveal that, as he had stabbed his friend only under orders from the British secret service, he was entitled to release. On the other, he felt completely trapped. Less than 24 hours later, a 14-year-old boy was critically ill in hospital with stab wounds in the chest and stomach. Mark, who "liked me loads," as John realized, would certainly cease correspondence if the truth emerged about his virtual romantic interests. Boy A: u want me 2 take him 2 trafford centre and kill him in the middle of the trafford centre?? 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