14-year-old boy in chat-room suicide/murder plot deceit

JamesM · 29th May 2004, 03:40 PM

This is easily one of the weirdest things I have ever read (and I've been reading The Fortean Times for over ten years):

Web friend conned into murder bid

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A teenager created an "elaborate matrix of deceit" on the internet to persuade another boy he had fallen in love with to murder him, a court has heard.

BBC news provides more utterly bonkers details here.

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The amazingly complex stories revolved around eight main characters, including Boy B as himself and his friend, known as Boy A.

The other characters were all fictional.

Boy B started writing to Boy A in early 2003, posing as a teenage girl.

... and then things get really bizarre...

29th May 2004, 03:40 PM	#1
JamesM Graduate Poster Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,823	14-year-old boy in chat-room suicide/murder plot deceit This is easily one of the weirdest things I have ever read (and I've been reading The Fortean Times for over ten years): Web friend conned into murder bid Quote: A teenager created an "elaborate matrix of deceit" on the internet to persuade another boy he had fallen in love with to murder him, a court has heard. BBC news provides more utterly bonkers details here. Quote: The amazingly complex stories revolved around eight main characters, including Boy B as himself and his friend, known as Boy A. The other characters were all fictional. Boy B started writing to Boy A in early 2003, posing as a teenage girl. ... and then things get really bizarre...
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