A man has been arrested in Kent on suspicion of murder after a boy died in north Manchester. 3 in the hierarchy of the British secret service, as she informs correspondents), on whom John clearly lavished special effort. One time he tried to depart from this routine, Bailey reported, but "the resulting anxiety was such that he had to go back and dress all over again." John yearns for strangers to recognize him for the celebrity he almost was. 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. The mother also insisted on meeting Mark's parents, who lived in the middle-class suburb of Stockport, about four miles away. If he carried out the job successfully, he was told, he would be accepted as a spy. "U want me 2 take him 2 trafford centre and kill him in the middle of trafford centre??" Various characters shared the same last nameor, alternatively, although claiming to be siblings, didn't share the same last name. says Hogg, the police analyst. The following day the two boys met and went to the Trafford Centre where they bought a kitchen knife. 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." Mark. "There is nothing you would see in these boys that is different from any It is a paradox that seems to have escaped the British judiciary. But all he manages to attract is the curiosity of the local police. "I was surprised Mark believed it all," John would later admit. Invention was so easy, "the equivalent of taking heroin," John thought. A great deal of thought went into her gestation. Murderers? Boy A: ok erm well i watch a lot of films. Manchester stabbing: Boy, 15, killed and mother injured as police hunt suspect Anyone who believes they have seen the suspect has been instructed by police not to approach him and to call 999. A 14-year-old boy has been stabbed in the neck while sitting an exam at a high school in south Manchester. Paramedics had treated the boy at the scene but he was taken to hospital, where he died around an hour later. Tales were told of instant transformations. "I would say things that wouldn't make sense." Mark's worlduntil then packed mainly with soccer, passable grades, and admiring schoolgirlswas alight with these passionate intruders. The virtual universe John had so carefully constructed was fast slipping out of control. Nonetheless, there were enough absurdities to warrant re-examination. Mark was to carry out oral sex on John to complete the test Another test was given. And, on occasion, guilty. "He didn't feel part of the family," his psychiatrist realized. And she stained my sheets when she was bleeding! It was from this injury that the teenager almost died on the operating tabletwice, police tell me. "It was like satisfying a craving, you had to be on there, you had to be doing it." 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.". Of these invented creatures, the most passionate and durable was the high-ranking spy Dobinson. "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. It was then that Janet entered the chat room. 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 44-year-old man from Manchester was arrested in Kent on Friday evening. 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. Cameron Mounds, age 19, was found in the driveway of 98 Enfield Street where he was pronounced deceased. But the court was told that in reality Boy B had fallen in love with Boy A, conned him into performing sex acts on a webcam, and tricked him into stabbing him twice in Altrincham, Greater Manchester. A few days later, however, the case took a surprise turn. He took a cocktail stick and scraped it against his wrist. 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. At the time. This time the order came from Tony Blair himself, via Janet. 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. 'Spy': well think please They arrived on the scene to see a 14-year-old teenager fighting for his life, bleeding to death after receiving multiple stab wounds. But once Mark began expressing interest in her as well, she, too, evaporated, ostensibly killed by the British government on April 27, 2003. That is what lies at the heart of this story. "If it is strangers, they are saying I am a Paki and a terrorist," he says. Lately, for example, she'd doubled as an airline stewardess. The police appealed for witnesses whilst seizing CCTV footage of the surrounding area. Footage captured of the alley entrance showed that no one else had entered it except John and Mark. 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. Detective Chief Inspector Alicia Smith said: 'This attack has left a community. 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 author knocks on the doors bearing the darkest symbols, behind which lie guns, ammo, antisemitism, antiabortion dogmaand a belief in the coming civil war. And as far as the police could see, it hadn't occurred, at least not the way the older boy had said. 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). "She" then introduced him to her stepbrother, who was John. "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 Sunday 29 June 2003, Mark brought a kitchen knife under the pretence it was for his mother, carefully avoided the CCTV cameras Janet had warned him about and entered the alley with John. John, from Greater Manchester, pleaded guilty at Manchester crown court to incitement to murder and perverting the course of justice. It is this demand that catches my eye when I open the 15 pounds of chat-room text that I had received. Stand there a [minute] while i stab u?". The answer as to why is still up for debate but some claim he loved John to the point where he knew Mark would not reciprocate if the truth were ever revealed. Jakub Szymanski was taken to hospital with stab wounds but later died after officers were called to an address in the Miles Platting area of Manchester on Thursday. Jakub Szymanski was taken to hospital. , updated Every story John spun on the chat-room site, every slithering creation dropped into the ocean of the Internet, Mark avidly reeled in. The 14-year-old boy, dubbed Boy B in court, created a series of fictional characters in chatrooms, one of which ordered Boy A to murder him. Detectives launched a murder inquiry after a mother and son were both stabbed at a house in Miles. "Incitement to murder," said the prosecutor. But yesterday the young "victim" became the first person in this country to be convicted of inciting their own murder. "Look at how convincing these personalities are!" And he would sit and read a book rather than talk with his friends," she revealed. An intricate web of deceit had been spun by the boy on the chatroom to recruit another teenager as his would-be killer. John wonders. 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. A grammar school scholarship boy stabbed through the heart by his ex-public school friend was a "peacemaker", his sister told the inquest into his death. 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. But Boy B did not die and spent a week in. Mark was still accused of attempted murder, to which he ultimately pleaded guilty. Janet was to be the first to arrive on the scene, disguised as a detective who would ensure Mark wasnt arrestedbut Janet never arrived. Manchester. 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. Dobinson had answers for everything. Mark pleaded guilty to attempted murder, was given a two-year supervision order and banned from any contact with John. A simulated graphic showing the real conversation transcript between John (14) and Mark (16) | Image: Shutterstock.com, This shared psychotic disorder usually involves one dominant person convincing the other of their beliefs, Ben Field plied his lover with drugs to make him think he was going mad in a campaign of mental torture. Back Mark went to a juvenile-detention center. The 14-year-old boy, dubbed Boy B in court, created a series of fictional characters in chatrooms, one of which ordered Boy A to murder him. I havent really thought about it.". 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. The modem was removed from John's laptop and the computer itself exiled to her room. said one message. They arrived on the scene to see a 14-year-old teenager fighting for his life, bleeding to death after receiving multiple stab wounds. This is a legal novelty in Britain, and very likely throughout the world. Something had to be done to forestall the moment of truth. 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. Not in Britain, however. The plots were extracted from what John had seen both in films and in life: thick with treachery, villainy, and betrayal. "I couldn't go home and carry on with this fantasy," John would later confide. The 17-year-old boy, known only as Boy A . No media alarm should have been raised. Janet asked Mark in the final chatroom exchange. "Boots," typed Dobinson, referring to a drugstore chain which sells many household articles, including, as it turns out, Sabatier kitchen knives. There he wielded control over everythingespecially his laptop. He was given a three-year supervision order, banned from contacting Mark or using the internet without strict adult supervision. John would recover from his near-fatal wounds and whilst Mark was charged with attempted murder, John was charged with inciting his own murder. It lies off Stamford New Road, close by a shopping mall in the prosperous Manchester suburb of Altrincham, where random stabbings simply don't occur. At which point, one local reporter informs me, "Everyone in the press put down their pens and pads." The prosecutor thinks otherwise. When investigators seized Marks computer they found over 58,000 lines of text within the chat room. She liked to issue instructions. "I love you, bro," Mark told his younger friend as he plunged in the knife. One final thing, both mothers told their sons. Police Identify Driver Killed in Crash. "And the public, in the submissions of the press, are entitled to be told the truth.". That was the day before the attempted murder. 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. A four-month waiting list. He dresses in a manner equally rigid. not believe Boy B intended to harm him. Nov. 29, 2022. "But these could not be described as any normal circumstances," he said. Which wasn't, unfortunately, saying much. "Could you kill someone close to you? 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. He doesn't think he will ever get married, much less have children. 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. John was careful to find an excuse for a certain character to disappear so a new one could enter the online chat. 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. On the one hand, the teenager was, as he would later acknowledge, "loving it." Except to his room. This Dobinson woman claimed to have urgent business with a very lofty crowd. Around 12:27 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022, police said,. 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 . Mark had even been given a codename, 47695, and been provided with an abort code, 6969, should the mission be cancelled. As for himself, John was a virtual Scheherazade, a gifted fabricator. Even when John passed his exams (much to his surprise) and gained entrance to a prestigious grammar school, the names continued unabated. "I haven't really thought about it," Mark replied. A schoolboy posed as a female British secret service spy in an internet chatroom to persuade a friend to try to murder him, a court heard yesterday. A 16-year-old boy has been stabbed repeatedly outside Manchester's Arndale Centre. The final internet chatroom exchange took place on 28 June last year. A murder investigation has been launched after a 16-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Manchester. It all seemed quite unbelievable but for the impressionable and nave Mark, hed believed every twist and turn of the fantasy that had been created for him online. says Goldberg, John's lawyer. said. 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. Ashley Spence, age 21, was transported to Saint Francis where she was pronounced dead. Wot shud i say 2 him? 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. "The 14-year-old boy showed no intention to hurt anybody but himself," he Police at the scene after a 16-year-old boy was fatally stabbed in Stretford, Manchester (Peter Byrne/PA) "He was just 16 and has been formally identified as Kennie Carter. His mother, an office manager, also disappoints him, he suggested to therapists. One of the stab wounds pierced his kidney and lacerated his liver. Mark had been fooled by John into believing he was working for the British secret services. John saw his friend surrounded by admiring girls. Kennie Carter was found badly injured in Thirlmere Avenue, Stretford, shortly before 19:00 GMT on. Uwant me 2 kill him ?? There were no demands to see Janet Dobinson, who had sworn that she would engineer his freedom. Where does he belong? On June 28, 2003, the "Spy" and Boy A planned the killing in achatroom: 8.50pm Boy A: he will die in the middle of alti?? In the absence of factual press reports, John feels at liberty to craft, for the benefit of his girlfriend, fabulous new tales, starring himself. 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. 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. Some madman had attacked his friend, the boy told the police. "And jus leave him 2 die . These books "were about mental illness," the teacher observed. ", Practically everyone I speak to about this singular boy and his case demonstrates toward him a high level of antipathy, with the notable exception of Goldberg, who compares this story to Romeo and Juliet. Prime Minister Blair wanted John to be seen as gay, therefore Mark was to carry out oral sex on John to complete the test. The boy was devious. John's mother, a small, plump woman, who had experienced more than her share of life's anguish, felt a heightened sense of alarm. They might as well have burned them. As Mark would discover on the chat-room site, Rachel, along with her "brother" John, were in a state of ceaseless peril, threatened with abduction and rape by a self-proclaimed homosexual stalker named KevinJohn's fourth character. 2003 June 29 Historical Events Sports History US Senior Open Men's Golf, Inverness Club: Bruce Lietzke wins by 2 strokes from Tom Watson Golfer Tom Watson Famous Deaths Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003) American actress (Adam's Rib, On Golden Pond), dies of natural causes at 96 2003 Highlights About June 29, 2003 Day of the Week: Sunday 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. They were ordered never to meet again and they could only go on the Internet with supervision and never onto chat rooms. 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. 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. A. [CDATA[// >