Crime news across America. School bullies who had previously targeted the younger boy? Who was she really, anyway? 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.". John would recover from his near-fatal wounds and whilst Mark was charged with attempted murder, John was charged with inciting his own murder. A 14-YEAR-OLD boy has been stabbed in the neck in front of horrified teachers and classmates at school. a short-lived character inquires of Mark right after Rachel's "death." thats wot ur asking? Stunned and uncomprehending, she reported her observations to John's mother, who agreed that her son's behavior had been very strange recently. They had desires they expressed frankly, ardently, threateningly, as the occasion warranted. The boy is tall for his age, but slight, with olive skin, a long crooked nose, and dark, intelligent eyes framed by thick black brows poised for flight. 15-year-old boy who died after he was stabbed in . In the absence of factual press reports, John feels at liberty to craft, for the benefit of his girlfriend, fabulous new tales, starring himself. 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. 01:25 AEDT 29 May 2004 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. He was the kind of teenager who needed every last detail spelled out. "When will I c u?" Four weeks later, the boy went missing from school, his first act of truancy ever. For the past six months, Mark had communicated with a variety of people on the chat room, a site dedicated to Manchester teenagers. They are proud, existential boasts stuffed with lies: livinitlargelad@hotmail.com and livinitlargeladdy@hotmail.com. He was, he told his probation officer, "trapped" in the virtual world, with no way out. 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. 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. 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. A 16-year-old boy has been stabbed to death in Manchester. Freezing cold. "He says he is unhappy at home, but there is nothing we are aware of.". But all he manages to attract is the curiosity of the local police. "Just wanted to be on the Internet, that's all that mattered." not believe Boy B intended to harm him. Cameron Mounds, age 19, was found in the driveway of 98 Enfield Street where he was pronounced deceased. said. They arrived on the scene to see a 14-year-old teenager fighting for his life, bleeding to death after receiving multiple stab wounds. Plays Daisy Meredith in "Daisy Pulls It Off" play by Denise Deegan (Lyric Theatre, London, England, UK). Certainly John possessed the determination and industry necessary for success. It is clear he doesn't have much sympathy for the boy whose brush with death prompted the unprecedented charge. Off you go.'" That same camera follows John whenever he revisits the scene of the crime. Mark was visibly shaken by what he just witnessed, telling the police he saw a hooded knifeman stab his friend, for no reason, before running off. Mark was to carry out oral sex on John to complete the test Another test was given. Somehow or other, the boy added, he found himself dragged once again to his feet, then the knife plunged back in. "I haven't really thought about it," Mark replied. tragedy it all was.". A story of a near-fatal Internet attraction. Advertisement The Internet did something like that to him, said John. He dresses in a manner equally rigid. "He was kneeling on me saying, 'Trust me,' holding the knife to my stomach. John was careful to find an excuse for a certain character to disappear so a new one could enter the online chat. "He said he'd done it because he'd heard voices." an incredulous Mark wrote the British agent Janet Dobinson on June 28, 2003. These books "were about mental illness," the teacher observed. 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 perpetually besotted Mark asked her. ]]> An arid pause. "I would say, of the two teenagers, John was the more wicked and more criminally culpable.". 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. Asked if anyone had ever been able to exert control over his private thoughts, the boy said yes. 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. We let social media get away with murder. At the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean lay a "huge massive safe" containing "the worlds richest jewels." "Bear in mind this is a love storythat's why he wanted to commit suicide," says Goldberg. Since seeing a psychologist, John's mother informed the court, John had been getting along nicely with her live-in companion. ", Boy A thought he was carrying out the orders of a British spy, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites, 28 May 04 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 at the hands of a 16-year-old boy who he had met via an internet chatroom.". We finally saw that the last person to use the laptop at John's house [before the stabbing] was Janet Dobinson.". A 15-year-old boy has been killed and his mother injured after they were both stabbed at a house in Manchester. 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. Why had John done it? John's mother wasted no time. Lyndsey East, who had briefly enchanted him and then disappeared without a word of good-bye, was John. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Apparently a girl named Rachel had signed in to the chat room initially. 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. In his head. A 44-year-old man from Manchester was arrested in Kent on Friday evening. Detective Chief Inspector Julian Ross of the Greater Manchester police force gazed at the mountains of chat-room printouts in utter dismay. 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." Every story John spun on the chat-room site, every slithering creation dropped into the ocean of the Internet, Mark avidly reeled in. 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. 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. The attack left John, a promising grammar school student, close to death. The beautiful Rachel West, whom he had loved, wooed, and honestly mourned, was Johnas was Kevin, who reveled in the bloody details of her gang rape and murder. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of Terms and Conditions. ", 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.". "He said it was important to him to keep Mark as his friend and he was not confident that Mark would be interested in just speaking to John.". These characters spoke his language, a blend of northern-England vulgarisms and the cheerful adolescent code of chat rooms. After the investigators had poured through the thousands of lines of text from the chat room, they realised most of the people on there were fake. Then the stepfather packed up when John was seven, and he, his mother, and his younger sister had to move to a smaller house. 2023 Cond Nast. 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. And not just one. And she stained my sheets when she was bleeding! other middle-class family, and the word that keeps coming back to us is what a As they poured through the copy, they initially believed they were looking for a paedophile pretending to be Janet and grooming Mark. These messages included the following exchange: 'Spy' (in reality Boy B): could you stab someone? Lately, for example, she'd doubled as an airline stewardess. Police only became aware of the labyrinthine plot when they examined John's computer. Detectives launched a murder inquiry after the teenage boy died following the stabbing . Police used traffic cameras to track the vehicle, which led Beard to be pulled over near a Dorchester. Something had to be done to forestall the moment of truth. Mark was in the courtroom, listening to Clarke sketch the full account of the story in which Mark himself was such a major participantand of which he knew so little. Just a few well-chosen words typed into Google are enough to call up some media stories identifying John as a stabbing victim last year, as well as other articles, more recent, revealing that in fact the victim incited his own attempted murder. John's mother, a small, plump woman, who had experienced more than her share of life's anguish, felt a heightened sense of alarm. "We couldn't get our heads around it." ", "Erm I duno. His mother, an office manager, also disappoints him, he suggested to therapists. (It was not the most felicitous evening: the videos were porn, and the two boys engaged in oral sex that night.) At first, the police thought the attack was committed by an adult robber described in precise details by Mark. Wot shud i say 2 him? thats wot ur asking me? "The aim of it all was to find Janet Dobinson," says Ross. He had to wait. You can take any identity you want.". Most views are considerably less indulgent. It was out of fear. But by the time of a crucial chatroom conversation on 28 June, Mark was still convinced by the order - from the "spy" - to kill John. Very busy, this thing with the royal party being disturbed, u will know about it " ), she was always available to Mark. "It was like satisfying a craving, you had to be on there, you had to be doing it." However much John longed for death at this point, there was evidently a small portion of him that held back: "6969 abort code ok?! "This case serves as a stark warning of the dangers of the dark side of the internet," Nicholas Clarke, prosecuting, told the court yesterday. Mark never noticed. It wasn't John whom Mark loved, the boy knows. Manchester. In October 2003, three months after the arrest and detention of Mark, authorities would discover that someone by the name of Dobinson logged on to John's laptop with a password at a time when only John was at home. "Angry and upset" was how he later described his reaction to the news about his "girlfriend." But when officers examined CCTV footage they realised the story was implausible. But Boy B did not die and spent a week in. "Call an ambulance!" Judge David Maddison, the recorder of Manchester, said: "Skilled writers of fiction would struggle to conjure up a plot such as that which arises here. Authorities allege she fatally stabbed John Glennon on Friday in Manchester, New Hampshire. Mark's worlduntil then packed mainly with soccer, passable grades, and admiring schoolgirlswas alight with these passionate intruders. "I don't think it's an exaggeration to say he brainwashed my client," says David Hatton, Mark's attorney, who has nothing but compassion for the boy. On the one hand, the teenager was, as he would later acknowledge, "loving it." Nicholas Clarke, prosecuting, told the court, This case serves as a stark warning of the dangers of the dark side of the internet.. They might as well have burned them. Other characters emerged and were killed off, one even came back from the dead. "It was incitement to commit murder - his own murder," said Detective Chief Inspector Julian Ross of Greater Manchester Police. Thus, the stories that emerged about John were a feeble compilation of bare-bones facts and judgments spoon-fed by the authorities. 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. "Because he had the friendship with Rachel and Janet.". At which point, one local reporter informs me, "Everyone in the press put down their pens and pads." There were conditions made: no unsupervised Internet sessions for either boy, no further contact between them. 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 . Mark had initially fallen in love with Rachel, even though their attempts to meet up in real life had never worked out. "There is nothing you would see in these boys that is different from any In her line of work, after all, she was expert at assuming all sorts of identities. Mark had been fooled by John into believing he was working for the British secret services. 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. The character Rachel is writing to Mark: This passage incensed Manchester authorities. Janet asked Mark in the final chatroom exchange. On the whole, Goldberg thought, a teenager who could spin such tales was headed in the right direction. One final thing, both mothers told their sons. He doesn't think he will ever get married, much less have children. Manchester Grammar School pupil Yousef Makki was attacked in Hale Barns, Greater Manchester, on 2 . But that was because police had possession of the computers and were bound to find out about her anyway. It seemed normal. The police appealed for witnesses whilst seizing CCTV footage of the surrounding area. No mention of sunken treasure, fatal tumors, or Tony Blair. You might be tsted on that later on. Two teenagers on a junior high school basketball court after school became involved in a fight and one stabbed the other in the shoulder. . 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. And that raises the question: How much of this elaborately constructed Internet fantasy did Mark really believe, at heart? 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. She liked to issue instructions. About these taunts, which were ceaseless in elementary school, he said nothing to anyone. A 44-year-old Manchester man, who is believed to be known to the victims, was arrested last night in Kent on suspicion of murder. Except to his room. Perhaps it was "warped" to spend so much time in chat rooms, he reflected, sleepless and typing ceaselessly. "But these could not be described as any normal circumstances," he said. Boy A, a 15-year-old, stabbed Boy B twice,. says Goldberg, John's lawyer. The modem was removed from John's laptop and the computer itself exiled to her room. The final internet chatroom exchange took place on 28 June last year. That was the day before the attempted murder. Cold Cases, Missing and Unsolved Crimes. The trauma for him!" Access to that chest was available only through John, who had the combination. 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 now a suspect and after he was shown the CCTV footage, revealed the truth that he was the one who stabbed John. 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. Which wasn't, unfortunately, saying much. The newspapers and television networks, which at the behest of law enforcement had terrified the region with tales of a crazed would-be murderer loose in Manchester, weren't even permitted to correct these false allegations. 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. Nothing was impossible. "I bottled it in," he told the Manchester psychiatrist Sue Bailey. The plots were extracted from what John had seen both in films and in life: thick with treachery, villainy, and betrayal. "That's the guy that got stabbed," one might say. The older boy he had "looked up to and wanted for myself," as John would later express it, had fallen for an imaginary girl. "Shush. Not at home: "It doesn't suit me, being part of a family environment, being sucked in," he says. Janet: Could you stab someone?Mark: I haven't really thought about it. Janet: Well think please.Mark: OK. "I would say things that wouldn't make sense." ", 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.". this sort of thing. said one message. Police were called to Norton Street, Old Trafford, just before 6pm on 9th September, to. The second was John himself. John, too, had his suspicions about the degree of his friend's credulity. 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. "How cud I have been there when i didnt kno where she woz," the bewildered adolescent wrote back. Mark obeyed, convincing Johns school he had a dentist appointment. Detective Chief Inspector Julian Ross, of Greater Manchester police, said: "The initial contact was made when the older boy went into an internet chatroom and talked to a person purporting to be a 16-year-old girl. Mark had even been given a codename, 47695, and been provided with an abort code, 6969, should the mission be cancelled. 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." "And that caused us some major concern," Ross says. "Mark must have known at some point that these characters were not real," he later told a therapist. A character's most improbable revelations would, inevitably, be confirmed by another. Earlier this month, a 15-year-old teenage boy was also stabbed to death in Walker Avenue, in Bolton, in another separate attack. For another, John, writing under his own name in a more adolescent style, sent Mark careful confirmation of his supposedly fatal condition: "I got a letter today, from my doc, when i went in a few weeks ago cos i was depressed and shit i got a brain thingy tumour but its big.". Stand there a [minute] while i stab u?". At first it seemed as though a brutal, but straightforward, robbery had gone wrong. That girl was in fact the younger boy.". What appeared on the screen was a revelation of flattering significance: "This is the UK's biggest secret I CAN TRUST YOU WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE TO LOOK AT YOU WHILE I TELL YOU?". "The continuity and his memory were phenomenal.". At school his geography teacher saw a change in her pupil. Boy B also admitted perverting the course of justice. "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." Almost nothing consequential came out, as the lawyer representing the Manchester Evening News, the Daily Mail, and The Sun complained. Detectives launched a murder inquiry after a mother and son were both stabbed at a house in Miles Platting at around 9.30pm on Thursday. Mark, for example, was to stab his friend while saying: "Love you bro Make sure he knows you love him. 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 Identify Driver Killed in Crash. When investigators seized Marks computer they found over 58,000 lines of text within the chat room. John screamed. The 15-year-old died in hospital after being stabbed alongside his mother, who remains in a. Hed been asked to do so by a British spy mistress called Janet Dobinson, who hed been communicating with via an Internet chat room. A murder investigation has been launched after a 16-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Manchester. 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. 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