The final internet chatroom exchange took place on 28 June last year. The following day, June 29 2003, boy A "carried out his orders to the letter" and stabbed boy B once in the chest and once in the stomach. 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 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. Freezing cold. This, however, made little difference; at night the boy would manage to retrieve and re-assemble the laptop and modem. 3 in the hierarchy of the British secret service, as she informs correspondents), on whom John clearly lavished special effort. 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. Soon he was spending upwards of 12 hours a day on the chat room, gradually becoming more and more obsessed with it. 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. ("Wud u h8 me if i told u that i pretended to be rach 1nite?" (These are not their real names.). Various characters shared the same last nameor, alternatively, although claiming to be siblings, didn't share the same last name. They are proud, existential boasts stuffed with lies: livinitlargelad@hotmail.com and livinitlargeladdy@hotmail.com. A four-month waiting list. Early 20s, wearing a black hooded jacket and black jeans. "That was the stumbling point for me. Crime news across America. He added such offences would normally carry a lengthy jail sentence. Two of them ceased writing after meeting up with sorry fates: rape, murder, a coma, a baby born during the comaplot twists so messy and operatic that police had to provide themselves with stacks of names and huge piles of colored charts to sort things out. Manchester. In the meantime, Dobinson added, Mark was to make sure to buy the right type of knife. Mark never noticed. Thus, the stories that emerged about John were a feeble compilation of bare-bones facts and judgments spoon-fed by the authorities. "He says he is unhappy at home, but there is nothing we are aware of.". One final thing, both mothers told their sons. 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." No madman in a hooded jacket, the authorities quickly realized, would ever be found. | He took a cocktail stick and scraped it against his wrist. 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. 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. He was expecting to meet the prime minister, and be given a gun and up to 500,000 in cash. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Cameron Mounds, age 19, was found in the driveway of 98 Enfield Street where he was pronounced deceased. Two years ago, she found another companion, a plumber who moved in with them, and it seemed to John that this newcomer was receiving more attention than he was. 15-year-old boy who died after he was stabbed in . Dobinson was, as Mark had been informed, 44 and authoritative. "Mark did it once, stood up, holding me, did it again," the victim told police. Not a spelling or grammatical error, Hogg decided. John pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice and incitement to murder. 'Spy': well think please That was the day before the attempted murder. The stab wounds still pain him. But once Mark began expressing interest in her as well, she, too, evaporated, ostensibly killed by the British government on April 27, 2003. Janet had used it and so had John. 26 Feb Feb He is believed to be known to the victims. "I just thought, It could have been my son," she says. ", "Erm I duno. When pressed, he told law enforcers only as much as he suspected they already knewor might soon discover. The teenager was with his friends when. Young Johnas the hopelessly credulous Mark was informed by the spy Dobinsonhad a slow-growing but terminal brain tumor. He was the only child of working-class parents, well mannered and respectful, bound, he thought, for a local business college. A criminal intelligence analyst, Sally Hogg, pored over 58,000 lines of text generated between them in six weeks. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of Terms and Conditions. He was given a three-year supervision order, banned from contacting Mark or using the internet without strict adult supervision. "Call an ambulance!" 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. 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Sentencing, Judge David Maddison said the case was "extraordinary". He was in many regards, an ordinary teenage lad. Detective Chief Inspector Julian Ross of the Greater Manchester police force gazed at the mountains of chat-room printouts in utter dismay. "If it is strangers, they are saying I am a Paki and a terrorist," he says. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. His mother, Katarzyna Bastek, in her 40s, was also stabbed in the incident and is recovering in hospital. 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. A. He knew he was addicted, and not just to the Internet. Janet: Could you stab someone?Mark: I haven't really thought about it. Janet: Well think please.Mark: OK. "Don't let that be the last thing you are saying. According to Janet, John was the single most important person in the country, as he knew the code to access a secret safe hidden at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean that only a few countries knew about. 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. "IM NOW IN A POSITION TO TELL YOU WHY," Dobinson wrote back. Manchester Crown Court heard that John, who had fallen in love with Mark, also tricked him into performing sex acts on a webcam before tricking him into stabbing him twice in an alleyway at Altrincham on 29 June last year. The boy was, no mistaking it, aghast. 10 June 2022. Then Mark pulled out the knife and called an ambulance. A great deal of thought went into her gestation. Every story John spun on the chat-room site, every slithering creation dropped into the ocean of the Internet, Mark avidly reeled in. "He would become withdrawn. These characters spoke his language, a blend of northern-England vulgarisms and the cheerful adolescent code of chat rooms. I havent really thought about it.". 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. The police appealed for witnesses whilst seizing CCTV footage of the surrounding area. It was "like feeding a dog," John would later explain. But yesterday the young "victim" became the first person in this country to be convicted of inciting their own murder. The teenager was attacked just before 4:30pm on Saturday on one of the busiest shopping days of the year.. "Look at how convincing these personalities are!" Blood pooled inside the boy's body cavity, and this restricted the movement of his diaphragm, which stopped the functioning of his lungs. Sally Hogg went directly to the prosecutor with the news. Mark. For days he lay on a respirator, treated with painkillers and antibiotics, saying little. "We couldn't get our heads around it." "Angry and upset" was how he later described his reaction to the news about his "girlfriend." The second was John himself. "This was a seemingly unprovoked attack," he told the media, which were directed to inform the public of the knife-wielding monster, "and we have no idea why this happened." But the problem was Mark wasn't the only one in love. ", John felt himself to be so profoundly unlovable that he entered the MSN chat room not under his own name but as a teenage beauty named Rachel West. The 17-year-old boy, known only as Boy A . On 26 July 2020, 4 people were stabbed in Moss Side in Manchester, England, 17-year-old Mohamoud Mohamed died at the scene. "What emerges from this is an extraordinarily persuasive, inventive boy!" He groomed the older boy to carry out the attack by persuading him he was a female spy who had ordered Boy B to commit murder, the court heard. No media alarm should have been raised. 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. But what could John do? A ring of pedophiles?