You might be tsted on that later on. "In fact, I think MSN themselves should perhaps take some responsibility. Everything is as it was that June day when Mark carried the six-inch knife they had bought together. 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. he wrote when told his true love had been raped. "Because he had the friendship with Rachel and Janet.". Cameron Mounds, age 19, was found in the driveway of 98 Enfield Street where he was pronounced deceased. All this took place on June 29, 2003, a very hot Sunday, in a small alleyway in an area that goes by the charming name of Goose Green. The word was "mybye," and it was used by John, Kevin, Dobinson, and Lyndsey. "Call an ambulance!" There's no supervision on a lot of these chat rooms. Undated family handout photo issued by Greater Manchester Police of 15-year-old Jakub Szymanski, known as Kuba to his family . Also, John is certain that people are always talking about him once they believe him to be out of earshot. But when officers examined CCTV footage they realised the story was implausible. 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. 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. document.write(new Date().getFullYear()) "The Internet's a very dangerous place to be," the prosecutor says mildly. 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. Jakub Szymanksi died in hospital after he was found with stab wounds at an address in Miles Platting on Thursday night. By all accounts he too, like Mark, was an ordinary teenager, nothing in his history would suggest hed be involved in something so terrible. 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. Who was she really, anyway? At first it seemed as though a brutal, but straightforward, robbery had gone wrong. Detective Chief Inspector Julian Ross of the Greater Manchester police force gazed at the mountains of chat-room printouts in utter dismay. His e-mail addresses contain no hint of his real name. He wanted to hear what his mother and her companion were saying about him. However much she screamed for u.". 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 . He took a cocktail stick and scraped it against his wrist. They were ordered never to meet again and they could only go on the Internet with supervision and never onto chat rooms. He is believed to be known to the victims. "The continuity and his memory were phenomenal.". He misses him terribly, even while recognizing, as he puts it, "the friendship with Mark was fake." 'Spy': well think please When a 14-year-old British boy was savagely stabbed, no one could have imagined the bizarre chat-room fantasy world that lay behind the attack. 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. When the sentence came down, Mark winked at his mother, and Sally Hogg, whose work had uncovered the degree of his manipulation by John, wept for the duller, more susceptible boy. Jakub Szymanski was taken to hospital. "We couldn't get our heads around it." But it wasn't just the virtual Mark whom John loved. thats wot ur asking me? 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. (It was not the most felicitous evening: the videos were porn, and the two boys engaged in oral sex that night.) Mark's worlduntil then packed mainly with soccer, passable grades, and admiring schoolgirlswas alight with these passionate intruders. He remembers sitting on the stairs of this more confined house, listening to his mother weeping in the living room. 15-year-old boy who died after he was stabbed in . Brilliant. Something had to be done to forestall the moment of truth. Almost nothing consequential came out, as the lawyer representing the Manchester Evening News, the Daily Mail, and The Sun complained. 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 . "And that caused us some major concern," Ross says. "An unrequited-love story.". CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, VA - Chesterfield County Police continue to investigate a fatal motor vehicle crash that occurred in the 9100 block of Midlothian Turnpike. Also in evidence were communications to both boys from someone who claimed to be a 44-year-old top administrator in the British secret service. The female creations came across, police decided, as archetypes of femininity, and not simply to a 16-year-old mind. At the time. [1] The incident was the result of a gangland feud between Rusholme Crips and Moss Side 's AO, or, 'Active Only'. His motive? "When will I c u?" But here they were thwarted at every turn by the peculiar British legal system. From his hospital bed, John said he had been stabbed by Mark but "he didn't know why". Another element the teenagers had in common: a Webcam, which allowed them to view each other and any other chat-room member who had one of the cameras. Boy A: ok erm well i watch a lot of films. He was the kind of teenager who needed every last detail spelled out. "Bear in mind this is a love storythat's why he wanted to commit suicide," says Goldberg. The Internet did something like that to him, said John. But to the authorities who later analyzed and re-analyzed what was written, none of this was ordinary. Had Mark been truly convinced he worked for the spy agency, "he would have said it at the outset," when he was arrested. "He said if he had not created Rachel, then Mark would not have wanted to get close to him," Dr. Kirsty Smedley, a Manchester psychologist, wrote after interviewing John subsequent to his arrest. "Incitement to murder," said the prosecutor. "It's a hard life!" In the months since the stabbing, he had been working out regularly at the juvenile-detention-center gym; he had grown muscular, hard. Police have not linked any of the incidents. On the one hand, the police were in luck: Mark's computer contained software that permitted retrieval of much of the chat-room dialogue between the two boyssuch sophisticated software is rarely on the home computers of unsophisticated adolescents, and it is possible the boy didn't know of its existence. Mark. 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. With whom could he discuss the activities of his imaginary heroines and villains? Multiple women lost six-figure sums after being scammed by a man they met on the popular dating app. 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.". Nonetheless, he is certain of Mark's sincerity. 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 . "Angry and upset" was how he later described his reaction to the news about his "girlfriend." "U want me 2 take him 2 trafford centre and kill him in the middle of trafford centre??" To prevent such tragedy, Mark was told, he had to perform sexual tasks in view of the Webcam to gratify the stalker himself. After reviewing the tape, the police arrested Mark for attempted murder. "How cud I have been there when i didnt kno where she woz," the bewildered adolescent wrote back. There was, the boy said, "nowhere to go." In John's small bedroom, which overlooks a small garden of aloe and yew, the boys played videos. None of it? Boy A: and just leave him 2 die in the trafford centre? Young Johnas the hopelessly credulous Mark was informed by the spy Dobinsonhad a slow-growing but terminal brain tumor. At no point could I find he made a mistake." Precise details of the June 29 stabbing, down to the kitchen knife, appeared on the MSN chat-room site right up until one day before the crime, police noticed. Police continue to investigate at the scene on Bednal Avenue. Boy A, a 15-year-old, stabbed Boy B twice, but he did not die, Manchester Crown Court heard. Advertisement On the whole, Goldberg thought, a teenager who could spin such tales was headed in the right direction. On 26 July 2020, 4 people were stabbed in Moss Side in Manchester, England, 17-year-old Mohamoud Mohamed died at the scene. The chat room took a dark turn when Kevin declared that hed kidnapped Rachel and would rape and kill her unless Mark recorded himself masturbating via webcam. His mother, an office manager, also disappoints him, he suggested to therapists. Friday 3 December 2021, 5:53pm. Spy: i wouldnt ask if it wasnt important? 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. Then on June 28 Janet told Mark that he had to kill the younger boy. The police concluded John was the mastermind behind it all; he was every character in that chat room, the puppet master pulling the strings whilst Mark played the role of puppet. His mother, Katarzyna Bastek, in her 40s, was also stabbed in the incident and is recovering in hospital. That was the day before the attempted murder. 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. 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. Mark was a college student who worked part-time at a restaurant. 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. Police used traffic cameras to track the vehicle, which led Beard to be pulled over near a Dorchester. These books "were about mental illness," the teacher observed. 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. The incident happened at a house on Bednal Avenue in Miles Platting at. Which wasn't, unfortunately, saying much. "He said he'd done it because he'd heard voices." Ad Choices. Just before 8pm on Sunday 29 June 2003, the police were called to a stabbing that had taken place down an alley behind a row of shops in Altrincham, a town in Greater Manchester. "This was a seemingly unprovoked attack," he told the media, which were directed to inform the public of the knife-wielding monster, "and we have no idea why this happened." As for the father's successor, he was, John declared, "bad on drugs.". There wasn't just one teenager to charge in the attempted murder of young John, said Clarke, there were two. "Brilliant for an e-mail chat! It is a spasm of regret that goes unmentioned by police and lawyers alike in my conversations with them. Offences of this kind under normal circumstances would result in an extremely lengthy custodial sentence, Judge David Maddison said, but these could not be described as any normal circumstances. The two were instead given supervision orders, John three years, Mark two. Wot shud i say 2 him? "I wanted to be dead," John told his therapisthe finally has one. The revelations that have leaked from Prince Harrys memoir. John, too, had his suspicions about the degree of his friend's credulity. the perpetually besotted Mark asked her. A four-month waiting list. That girl was in fact the younger boy.". Mark was to carry out oral sex on John to complete the test Another test was given. 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. "So when he'd gone through the humiliating task of masturbating on the Webcam, 'Kevin' then abducted his girlfriend. Not a spelling or grammatical error, Hogg decided. A 15-year-old boy who died after he was stabbed in Miles Platting has been named by Greater Manchester police as Jakub Szymanski. But this time John also was chargedwith inciting murder. Dobinson, too, was interested in watching sexual activity via the Webcam. "The 14-year-old boy showed no intention to hurt anybody but himself," he Hed been asked to do so by a British spy mistress called Janet Dobinson, who hed been communicating with via an Internet chat room. Not at home: "It doesn't suit me, being part of a family environment, being sucked in," he says. Stand there a [minute] while i stab u?". 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. June 29, 2003 | 4:00am A headless and handless body washed onshore near La Guardia Airport yesterday, police said. The police officer who led the investigation said the boys' lives and the lives of their families had been devastated. Indeed, for all his love for Mark, who was languishing in confinement for eight months while John recuperated at home, the younger boy remained rigidly unforthcoming about his own participation in the scheme. One in the chestthat was the light woundand another in the abdomen, six inches deep, which pierced his kidney and liver and necessitated the removal of his gallbladder. A court order, citing the age of the culprits, would not permit any media outletincluding Vanity Fairto identify the boys and required every publication to use the pseudonyms "John" and "Mark." "Skilled writers of fiction would struggle to conjure up a plot such as that In the meantime, Dobinson added, Mark was to make sure to buy the right type of knife. Two teenagers on a junior high school basketball court after school became involved in a fight and one stabbed the other in the shoulder. That, however, was not how it seemed at the time. John pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice and incitement to murder. Soon he was spending upwards of 12 hours a day on the chat room, gradually becoming more and more obsessed with it. 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. To this day, a British media Web site carries a picture of John, his engaging, shy smile shadowed by a tender hint of mustache. 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. "That's the guy that got stabbed," one might say. A criminal intelligence analyst, Sally Hogg, pored over 58,000 lines of text generated between them in six weeks. This is the story of two ordinary Manchester teens whose extraordinary friendship led to one of the most unusual and bewildering criminal cases in British history. Hogg recalls that the boy "brought into play different people whom we would later find. In his head. Mark had initially fallen in love with Rachel, even though their attempts to meet up in real life had never worked out. These documents sketch a different, complex picture of John, victim and criminal. "I couldn't go home and carry on with this fantasy," John would later confide. Boy B survived, and spent a week in Wythenshawe Hospital recovering. "She" then introduced him to her stepbrother, who was John. "Don't let that be the last thing you are saying. Uwant me 2 kill him ?? A story of a near-fatal Internet attraction. Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. Ever. 'Skilled writers of fiction would struggle to conjure up a plot such as that which arises here.'. For months John had corresponded in an Internet chat room with Mark, a bland-featured 16-year-old who possesses as his most striking traits a vast forehead, a tendency to open every sentence with "Ermmm," and, it would later be claimed, an almost infinite store of credulity. Mark, for example, was to stab his friend while saying: "Love you bro Make sure he knows you love him. "That was the stumbling point for me. At first, the police thought the attack was committed by an adult robber described in precise details by Mark. The boy was, no mistaking it, aghast. Footage captured of the alley entrance showed that no one else had entered it except John and Mark. 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. At first, the investigation was like any other. "I would say things that wouldn't make sense." Less than 24 hours later, a 14-year-old boy was critically ill in hospital with stab wounds in the chest and stomach. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. But what could John do? The lawyer is distinctly impressed by his client. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. 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. 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. must stop st8 away with 6969," Dobinson warned Mark, thus neatly uniting her creator's two major obsessions, sex and death. A man has been arrested in Kent on suspicion of murder after a boy died in north Manchester. He routinely washes parts of his body in a precise, unvarying order, no part cleaned more than once. In her line of work, after all, she was expert at assuming all sorts of identities. Much later, after months of wrong turns and huge confusion, the police would be very impressed by his skill. The older boy he had "looked up to and wanted for myself," as John would later express it, had fallen for an imaginary girl. Detective Chief Inspector Alicia Smith said: 'This attack has left a community. Blood pooled inside the boy's body cavity, and this restricted the movement of his diaphragm, which stopped the functioning of his lungs. Or, more anxiously, "Are you O.K.?" A. He was in many regards, an ordinary teenage lad. 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). Eight months later he began spending a lot more time on the Internet, the teenager said. They had desires they expressed frankly, ardently, threateningly, as the occasion warranted. Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged in, Please refresh your browser to be logged in, Boy, 14, 'posed as spy to arrange his own murder', Extra 20% off selected fashion and sportswear at Very, Up to 20% off and extra perks with Booking.com Genius membership, $6 off a $50+ order with this AliExpress discount code, 15% off orders over 15 with this eBay discount code, Compare broadband packages side by side to find the best deal for you, Compare cheap broadband deals from providers with fastest speed in your area, All you need to know about fibre broadband, Best Apple iPhone Deals in the UK February 2023, Compare iPhone contract deals and get the best offer this February, Compare the best mobile phone deals from the top networks and brands. "What emerges from this is an extraordinarily persuasive, inventive boy!" Sally Hogg, the police analyst, recalls that "there were 193 separate e-mail addresses" culled from the computers. It is this demand that catches my eye when I open the 15 pounds of chat-room text that I had received. Both pleaded guilty and received, to their patent relief, probation. Perhaps his girlfriend has access to the Internet; she doesn't believe him, John reports. What happened to the Hatton Garden burglars? A character's most improbable revelations would, inevitably, be confirmed by another. 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. "But these could not be described as any normal circumstances," the judge added. An intricate web of deceit had been spun by the boy on the chatroom to recruit another teenager as his would-be killer. They arrived on the scene to see a 14-year-old teenager fighting for his life, bleeding to death after receiving multiple stab wounds. Next to it is the headline BOY STABBED. //-->
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