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Saturday, May 29, 2004
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WHERE THERE'S A WILL THERE'S A WAY
This may be the greatest suicide story ever told. I couldn't be more in love with it. And to think the kid was only 14 at the time. And British. I'm impressed.
The next time that somebody tells you the British are dopey, you show them this story. Sure, they may be ruled by Posh and Becks. Granted, they may have created the largest empire in human history only to forget about things like dentistry and food preperation. But they do have flashes of fucking brilliance.
Okay, those flashes may be limited to Blake, the Beatles and this kid, but you get my point.
The final internet chatroom exchange took place on 28 June last year. "U want me 2 take him 2 trafford centre and kill him in the middle of trafford centre??" said one message. "Yes," came the reply.
Less than 24 hours later, a 14-year-old boy was critically ill in hospital with stab wounds in the chest and stomach. At first it seemed as though a brutal, but straightforward, robbery had gone wrong. But yesterday the young "victim" became the first person in this country to be convicted of inciting their own murder.
You can get convicted of inciting your own murder? I take back all the nice things I just said about the British.
An intricate web of deceit had been spun by the boy on the chatroom to recruit another teenager as his would-be killer.
"This case serves as a stark warning of the dangers of the dark side of the internet," Nicholas Clarke, prosecuting, told the court yesterday.
Yeah. It's not all anonymous webcam sex and kiddie porn.
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.
Either this kid is a fucking mastermind or his friend is a moron, I haven't decided which yet. Although, its been my experience that most people named Mark are retarded.
John, from Greater Manchester, pleaded guilty at Manchester crown court to incitement to murder and perverting the course of justice.
Waitasecond! The kid pleaded to something nobody's ever been convicted of before. What an asshole!
He was given a three-year supervision order, banned from contacting Mark or using the internet without strict adult supervision.
Mark, who is also from a middle-class family in Greater Manchester, was given a two-year supervision order for attempted murder.
Doesn't fascilitating and carrying out what is basically a murder for hire usually carry time? Note to my readers: If you were inspired by my O.J post, take your honeymoon in the U.K.
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. 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."
He said that under normal circumstances, the offences committed would have resulted in extremely lengthy custodial sentences. "But these could not be described as any normal circumstances," the judge added.
This may be the first instance of "time off for creativity" in the annals of criminal justice.
The attack left John, a promising grammar school student, close to death. One of the stab wounds pierced his kidney and lacerated his liver. His gall bladder had to be removed and he remained critically ill in hospital for a week.
Mark took out the kidney, gall bladder and liver? He's promising beginner.
Mark had been fooled by John into believing he was working for the British secret services. He was expecting to meet the prime minister, and be given a gun and up to £500,000 in cash.
He must REALLY want to kill John now for making him look like such an asshole.
It's a beautiful story. It makes me feel that much more alive.
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