School, despite his excellent grades, was equally desolate. wondered Mark. His own murder. 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. 15-year-old boy who died after he was stabbed in . said one message. 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. The stab wounds still pain 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 boy was, no mistaking it, aghast. He did reasonably well at school, although he wasn't the most academic person. The second was John himself. The world he had known was John, written, produced, and directed by 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.". Credit: MEN Media. Boy A: u want me 2 take him 2 trafford centre and kill him in the middle of the trafford centre?? But for all his facility at invention John wanted for himself no identity at all. A character's most improbable revelations would, inevitably, be confirmed by another. "And sometimes it would be a week or a few weeks before that character came back," always without a hitch, Hogg says. From his hospital bed, John said he had been stabbed by Mark but "he didn't know why". Sally Hogg went directly to the prosecutor with the news. 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. Kennie Carter was found badly injured in Thirlmere Avenue, Stretford, shortly before 19:00 GMT on. Mark was now a suspect and after he was shown the CCTV footage, revealed the truth that he was the one who stabbed John. Of these invented creatures, the most passionate and durable was the high-ranking spy Dobinson. thats wot ur asking? It was from this injury that the teenager almost died on the operating tabletwice, police tell me. "I am not aware of any other cases where that has taken place.". No media alarm should have been raised. The police appealed for witnesses whilst seizing CCTV footage of the surrounding area. A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a boy was stabbed at a house in Manchester. 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?? But what could John do? A 15-year-old boy who died after he was stabbed in Miles Platting has been named by Greater Manchester police as Jakub Szymanski. Less than 24 hours later, a 14-year-old boy was critically ill in hospital with stab wounds in the chest and stomach. The 17-year-old boy, known only as Boy A . Jakub Szymanski was taken to hospital. "So we said, 'Fine. The virtual universe John had so carefully constructed was fast slipping out of control. Everything is as it was that June day when Mark carried the six-inch knife they had bought together. We let social media get away with murder. ", The bleakly serious nature of the case is expected to lead to calls for tighter monitoring of internet chatrooms. "Angry and upset" was how he later described his reaction to the news about his "girlfriend." On the whole, John's mother honestly couldn't see what her bright son saw in his less academically inclined new friend. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of Terms and Conditions. "Boots," typed Dobinson, referring to a drugstore chain which sells many household articles, including, as it turns out, Sabatier kitchen knives. The Montreal Mafia Murders: Blood, Gore, Cannolis, and Hockey Bags, Palace Insiders Say Prince William Is Already Furious About Prince Harrys Memoir Leaks, Prince Harry alleges Prince William attacked him over Meghan Markle in a new excerpt from, Prince Harry on Williams Hairline and Their Wicked Stepmother. 01:25 AEDT 29 May 2004 John pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice and incitement to murder. Under the keyboard of his computer he kept a kitchen knife. There he wielded control over everythingespecially his laptop. Previously acceptable grades at his relatively undemanding high school dropped to C's and F's, Hatton, his attorney, tells me. That same camera follows John whenever he revisits the scene of the crime. On the whole, Goldberg thought, a teenager who could spin such tales was headed in the right direction. "Mark must have known at some point that these characters were not real," he later told a therapist. John yearns for strangers to recognize him for the celebrity he almost was. That is what lies at the heart of this story. Mark never noticed. 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. Four weeks later, the boy went missing from school, his first act of truancy ever. Mark had initially fallen in love with Rachel, even though their attempts to meet up in real life had never worked out. There were conditions made: no unsupervised Internet sessions for either boy, no further contact between them. tragedy it all was.". These messages included the following exchange: 'Spy' (in reality Boy B): could you stab someone? 26 Feb Feb The teenager was attacked just before 4:30pm on Saturday on one of the busiest shopping days of the year.. Mark was so convinced of Kevins threats that he agreed to the terms. Mark was given the number 47695 and ordered to "terminate" his friend. A boy has been cleared of murdering a 17-year-old he stabbed in the heart with a flick knife. But it wasn't just the virtual Mark whom John loved. John's mother wasted no time. Passing sentence Judge Maddison said: "Skilled writers of fiction would struggle to conjure up a plot such as that which arises here. "He was kneeling on me saying, 'Trust me,' holding the knife to my stomach. 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. It was "like feeding a dog," John would later explain. There was, the boy said, "nowhere to go." To lose that world meant losing his friend. After reviewing the tape, the police arrested Mark for attempted murder. "Staggering," said the judge who would hear his case. 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. In fact, John was determined to get himself killed, which is why he never used the abort code - 6969 - that he provided. Nonetheless, he is certain of Mark's sincerity. This time the order came from Tony Blair himself, via Janet. 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. 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. The two boys were beginning to meet in person. A 15-year-old boy has died after police say he was stabbed at the Brimbank Shopping Centre in the Melbourne suburb of Deer Park. On 26 July 2020, 4 people were stabbed in Moss Side in Manchester, England, 17-year-old Mohamoud Mohamed died at the scene. A story of a near-fatal Internet attraction. Police have not linked any of the incidents. 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." John and Mark then physically met, as did their parents, but in the chatroom John introduced increasingly far-fetched characters, including another boy who "stalked" John and supposedly killed his girlfriend. Certainly John possessed the determination and industry necessary for success. 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." Rachel was then apparently released by Kevin, although she would mysteriously disappear from the chat room shortly after. Over a nine-month period before the attempted murder, John began presenting himself as a 16-year-old girl in search of a cyber relationship, then "introduced" himself as the girl's step-brother. But when officers examined CCTV footage they realised the story was implausible. In the universe he inhabited, there was, John felt, no one to sustain himexcept on the Internet, which he peopled with characters of his own device. 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. Moreover, he was not to stray from her explicit instructions, because: "4 Agents watching you now ", "Each style of conversation was totally differentI really believed it," marvels Sally Hogg, the police analyst. In his head. Blood pooled inside the boy's body cavity, and this restricted the movement of his diaphragm, which stopped the functioning of his lungs. He dresses in a manner equally rigid. Moreover, added the mother, despite his earlier homosexual leanings, John now had "a girlfriend." Boy A, who is now 17, was served with a two-year supervision order and is allowed no contact with Boy B. "There is nothing you would see in these boys that is different from any 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. "He didn't feel part of the family," his psychiatrist realized. Then Mark was invited for a sleepover at John's. A 16-year-old boy who was fatally stabbed in Manchester has been named by police as Kennie Carter. 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. He has told his therapist about his lies to his girlfriend. Boy A: and just leave him 2 die in the trafford centre? 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. 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. John returned to his laptop. A 16-year-old boy has been stabbed to death in Manchester. Which wasn't, unfortunately, saying much. Multiple women lost six-figure sums after being scammed by a man they met on the popular dating app. By February 2003 he was contacting 20 to 30 people a night in chat rooms; within a week he had found Mark. Nov. 29, 2022. Turnb No mention of sunken treasure, fatal tumors, or Tony Blair. Cold Cases, Missing and Unsolved Crimes. The character Rachel is writing to Mark: This passage incensed Manchester authorities. A deliberate stylistic variation of "maybe," shared by four supposedly different people. A four-month waiting list. 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. There was blood coming out." In addition, police managed to recover dialogue from "unallocated clusters," data in storage space the computer is no longer using for active files. He took a cocktail stick and scraped it against his wrist. At school his geography teacher saw a change in her pupil. 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. There's no supervision on a lot of these chat rooms. 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. Much later, after months of wrong turns and huge confusion, the police would be very impressed by his skill. 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. The modem was removed from John's laptop and the computer itself exiled to her room. We finally saw that the last person to use the laptop at John's house [before the stabbing] was Janet Dobinson.". Access to that chest was available only through John, who had the combination. He knew he was addicted, and not just to the Internet. Friday 3 December 2021, 5:53pm. None of it? Also, John is certain that people are always talking about him once they believe him to be out of earshot. He found he was never tired. 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. As for the father's successor, he was, John declared, "bad on drugs.". Janet was to be the first to arrive on the scene, disguised as a detective who would ensure Mark wasnt arrestedbut Janet never arrived. a short-lived character inquires of Mark right after Rachel's "death." The word was "mybye," and it was used by John, Kevin, Dobinson, and Lyndsey. About these taunts, which were ceaseless in elementary school, he said nothing to anyone. 'Spy': well think please "I love you, bro," Mark told his younger friend as he plunged in the knife. Emergency services were called to the . A few details about the man have been released but he has not been identified by officers. Privately, grief and shame aren't so easy to contain. John wonders. Both sets of parents decided there would be no more sleepovers. Back Mark went to a juvenile-detention center. Thus, Rachel was only the beginning of what evolved into an intricate Internet folie six. With each passing day, the fantasy Janet was creating became even wilder, even more unbelievable, yet Mark did not question it. 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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. //--> He had to wait. They arrived on the scene to see a 14-year-old teenager fighting for his life, bleeding to death after receiving multiple stab wounds. Mark was, he told John, falling in love, ceaselessly trying to arrange a rendezvous with the girl. 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. And as far as the police could see, it hadn't occurred, at least not the way the older boy had said. "Bear in mind this is a love storythat's why he wanted to commit suicide," says Goldberg. "I am quite convinced it was a deliberate suicide attempt.". Once John had introduced himself as Rachel's brother, the two boys just clicked, John was later to explain. "I wanted to be dead," John told his therapisthe finally has one. On the one hand, the teenager was, as he would later acknowledge, "loving it." "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.". At the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean lay a "huge massive safe" containing "the worlds richest jewels." It is clear he doesn't have much sympathy for the boy whose brush with death prompted the unprecedented charge. But he could not say when the moment of enlightenment would have come for his friend. If John was being eaten away by his passion for the Internet world, Mark was devoured. But when it emerged that the boys had met through a teenage chatroom, detectives examined their computers. But this time John also was chargedwith inciting murder. Minutes passed, perhaps as many as 20. Freezing cold. Jakub Szymanksi died in hospital after he was found with stab wounds at an address in Miles Platting on Thursday night. Ad Choices. "The aim of it all was to find Janet Dobinson," says Ross. 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. He was infatuated with this woman. A person, says the lawyer, whose future may well turn out to be "brilliant.". 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. A 44-year-old man from Manchester was arrested in Kent on Friday evening. "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. You might be tsted on that later on. "What emerges from this is an extraordinarily persuasive, inventive boy!" 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. He brought into play Janet Dobinson"a spy, said John. "Shush. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. 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. Mark had been fooled by John into believing he was working for the British secret services. He remembers sitting on the stairs of this more confined house, listening to his mother weeping in the living room. 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. Whilst the chat included usual teenage topics such as sports, movies and clothing, sex and masturbation was often the focus. Feelings of depression overwhelmed him. To this day, a British media Web site carries a picture of John, his engaging, shy smile shadowed by a tender hint of mustache. Detectives launched a murder inquiry after the teenage boy died following the stabbing . "He said he'd done it because he'd heard voices." Mr Ross said: "The older boy thought he was talking to five or six different people when he was in fact talking to the younger boy all along.". "No offence but wot does she do neway?" The prosecutor thinks otherwise. He was given a three-year supervision order, banned from any contact with Mark and was told he must only access the internet under adult supervision and must not enter chatrooms. 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. 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 . A teenager has been charged with murder after a 16-year-old boy was stabbed to death . 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. Had Mark been truly convinced he worked for the spy agency, "he would have said it at the outset," when he was arrested. Stunned and uncomprehending, she reported her observations to John's mother, who agreed that her son's behavior had been very strange recently. I didn't like it, I couldn't undo it, it was all fake, taking someone else in." At first it seemed as though a brutal, but straightforward, robbery had gone wrong. A man has been arrested in Kent on suspicion of murder after a boy died in north Manchester on 9 June 2022. Mark obeyed, convincing Johns school he had a dentist appointment. other middle-class family, and the word that keeps coming back to us is what a The schoolboy was knifed at Manchester Academy in Moss Side, Manchester, yesterday around 9.4 There were no demands to see Janet Dobinson, who had sworn that she would engineer his freedom. He couldn't imagine, he says, being stuck with the same person his whole life. "Look at how convincing these personalities are!" Then Mark pulled out the knife and called an ambulance. Credit: Family photo. "To get him to do what 'they' wanted!". 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. Mark's worlduntil then packed mainly with soccer, passable grades, and admiring schoolgirlswas alight with these passionate intruders. "How cud I have been there when i didnt kno where she woz," the bewildered adolescent wrote back. 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." However much she screamed for u.". A few days later, however, the case took a surprise turn. Sometimes John would approach their bedroom and listen quietly, his ear pressed to the door. 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. From four in the afternoon to seven in the morning, he typed his inventions into his laptop. He was expecting to meet the prime minister, and be given a gun and up to 500,000 in cash. But yesterday the young "victim" became the first person in this country to be convicted of inciting their own murder. "Everything was planned out the previous day," said DCI Ross. All of it? 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. He might be talking about a particularly apt pupil. Mark pleaded guilty to attempted murder, was given a two-year supervision order and banned from any contact with John. (His Lordship, as it happened, did not.). Sentencing, Judge David Maddison said the case was "extraordinary". Police. If those numbers were uttered on the sunbaked streets of Altrincham, by the shopping center, Mark was told, John would be allowed to live. "I would say, of the two teenagers, John was the more wicked and more criminally culpable.". He ducks in and out of the small brick sandwich shops and coffee bars, passing the hair salon and the little metal statue of two geese. says Hogg, the police analyst. "That's the guy that got stabbed," one might say. "And so if you are talking about safety, that's one of the big dangers. In contrast to such frightening cunning, the blundering stupidity of Markthe actual knife wieldercomes as something of a relief. Mark. As the boys disappeared into the alley, that camera swung around and followed them. But that was because police had possession of the computers and were bound to find out about her anyway. The lawyer is distinctly impressed by his client. The media swarmed all over the case, fighting, in vain, to extract from the principals every last ounce of information. If converted into a paper pile, she adds, "it would stretch, I think, 46,000 feet high. He was in many regards, an ordinary teenage lad. Nothing was impossible. Lately, for example, she'd doubled as an airline stewardess. Some madman had attacked his friend, the boy told the police. On the other hand, for whom exactly were Ross and his computer experts supposed to be looking? ("Wud u h8 me if i told u that i pretended to be rach 1nite?" Mark was a college student who worked part-time at a restaurant. It wasn't John whom Mark loved, the boy knows. ", "Erm I duno. 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 all he manages to attract is the curiosity of the local police. 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. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. That month the boy was arrested by police minutes before setting off for school. said. As Hogg sorted for clues through the stacks of transcripts of Internet chat, however, she noticed a repetition of a certain word. [2] [3] [4] The final internet chatroom exchange took place on 28 June last year. 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. Mr Ross added: "We have not come across any underlying things that would turn a child to do He was given a three-year supervision order, banned from contacting Mark or using the internet without strict adult supervision. To prevent such tragedy, Mark was told, he had to perform sexual tasks in view of the Webcam to gratify the stalker himself. 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