"Your Lordship may think he would make a very good barrister." Mark was now a suspect and after he was shown the CCTV footage, revealed the truth that he was the one who stabbed John. None of it? "Look at how convincing these personalities are!" 'It's a show that I'm passionate about': Will Mellor on 'Cops Who Kill', communicating with via an Internet chat room. "It was incitement to commit murder - his own murder," said Detective Chief Inspector Julian Ross of Greater Manchester Police. The lawyer is distinctly impressed by his client. Around 12:27 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022, police said,. At age four, John found a book with his birth date in it, next to a different last name. A third victim, Harold "Oink" Cook, age 39, survived a gunshot wound to his buttocks. Freezing cold. Sometimes, as night falls over Greater Manchester, the ingenious adolescent returns to the place where he was stabbed last year, when he was 14. His own murder. Lyndsey East, who had briefly enchanted him and then disappeared without a word of good-bye, was John. he wrote when told his true love had been raped. June 29, 2003 | 4:00am A headless and handless body washed onshore near La Guardia Airport yesterday, police said. 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. 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. 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. Where does he belong? ", About his bent for invention John was manifestly ambivalent. Both pleaded guilty and received, to their patent relief, probation. "How cud I have been there when i didnt kno where she woz," the bewildered adolescent wrote back. 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.". "U want me 2 take him 2 trafford centre and kill him in the middle of trafford centre??" I didn't like it, I couldn't undo it, it was all fake, taking someone else in." Thus, he concocted more than a half-dozen fantasy personas, four of them women. It was out of fear. The final internet chatroom exchange took place on 28 June last year. John was careful to find an excuse for a certain character to disappear so a new one could enter the online chat. Which wasn't, unfortunately, saying much. Boy A, a 15-year-old, stabbed Boy B twice,. Manchester Hartford County Connecticut Arrests, Warrants & Most Wanted. Kennie Carter was found badly injured in Thirlmere Avenue, Stretford, shortly before 19:00 GMT on. 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. In her line of work, after all, she was expert at assuming all sorts of identities. Mark. Hatton, Mark's barrister, concedes that when he first met his client "he didn't find it easy to explain to me why he had fallen for it and been so stupid." 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. 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. However much she screamed for u.". 26 Feb Feb Nothing was impossible. A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a boy was stabbed at a house in Manchester. Then Mark pulled out the knife and called an ambulance. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Had Mark been truly convinced he worked for the spy agency, "he would have said it at the outset," when he was arrested. If Mark didnt complete the task Janet would lose her job and national security would be at risk. Boy A: ok erm well i watch a lot of films, 9.57pm Spy: change of plan dnt wear glove pull knife out and say you took it out. 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. These characters spoke his language, a blend of northern-England vulgarisms and the cheerful adolescent code of chat rooms. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Cold Cases, Missing and Unsolved Crimes. At the time. "I wanted to be dead," John told his therapisthe finally has one. Rachel was then apparently released by Kevin, although she would mysteriously disappear from the chat room shortly after. An intricate web of deceit had been spun by the boy on the chatroom to recruit another teenager as his would-be killer. 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 . ", Detective Chief Inspector Julian Ross said John's actions remained baffling. Passing sentence Judge Maddison said: "Skilled writers of fiction would struggle to conjure up a plot such as that which arises here. 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. "Incitement to murder," said the prosecutor. not believe Boy B intended to harm him. In addition, police managed to recover dialogue from "unallocated clusters," data in storage space the computer is no longer using for active files. put her head under water. Boy A: u want me 2 take him 2 trafford centre and kill him in the middle of the trafford centre?? A 14-year-old boy has been stabbed in the neck while sitting an exam at a high school in south Manchester. "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." [CDATA[// >