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The boy, who can be identified only by the pseudonym John, invented a cast of characters in an internet chatroom as part of an elaborate plan to commission his own murder.

He was 14 when he fell in love with Mark, a boy two years older, and adopted the guise of a female secret service agent to order his friend to stab him in a suburban alleyway. Mark was meant to end his life with the words: "I love you, bro'."

Mark carried out the stabbing in Altrincham, Cheshire, shortly before 8pm on June 29 last year. He knifed John in the chest and abdomen. The second blow cut into his kidney, liver and gall bladder, nearly killing him.

Minutes later Mark reported the attack on his mobile phone.

Manchester Crown Court heard that detectives studied 58,000 lines of internet text to break down the boys' account and show that John, who surfed the net for seven hours at a time, had spent six months manipulating Mark until he felt he was ready to commit murder.

It emerged that John had introduced himself to Mark on the internet as a teenage girl. Mark performed sexual acts for the "girl" on a webcam which John watched.

Later John introduced a series of other characters to the chatroom, including a second girlfriend, a stalker and two secret service agents modelled on Bond films.

One of the agents, identified as Agent 47695, told Mark she had been assigned to protect John. Later she ordered Mark to kill the boy, promising him as a reward a gun, a large sum of money and a meeting with the Prime Minister.

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I don't really know what to say in response to that.
 

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Posted by Nick (Member # 4311) on :
 
I know, I'm totally shocked...
 

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Posted by Anti-Christ (Member # 5714) on :
 
Yowzah.
 

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Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 
Imagine what Mark's stupidity and gullibility might have wrought on the world if not identified and caged early on.

Dagonee
 

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Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
 
o_O
 

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Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
 
Um...you know, the downside of the internet is that fantasies can be played out much, much further before things get revealed in the stark light of face-to-face meetings.

If this story was a movie, reviewers would pan it as too improbable.

How sad.
 

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Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
 

 

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Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
 
Is 7 hours a day too much to be spending on the internet?
 

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
 
That is so incredibly odd. It looks like he survived though.

Hobbes
 

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Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
 
Hmmm...were any of this guy's pseudonyms "Cedrios"?
 

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Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
 
Noemon


Dang, now I feel very guilty for having laughed at that.

Sorry Ced. You really don't deserve that, but it was a funny joke.

And I laughed.

And now I feel dirty
very dirty...
 

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