Police have not linked any of the incidents. 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. Only a part of this amazing story was ever revealed to the British public. "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." "That's the guy that got stabbed," one might say. Not a spelling or grammatical error, Hogg decided. John pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice and incitement to murder. He told Mark: "So convincingly were the characters presented to you that you really did believe you had been recruited by the Secret Service to kill your co-accused and face the consequences if you did not do so. 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. They arrived on the scene to see a 14-year-old teenager fighting for his life, bleeding to death after receiving multiple stab wounds. Detectives made appeals for help through the local media for the apparently unprovoked attack in Altrincham town centre. Although evidently preoccupied with problems at the most exalted levels of government ("Hiya Babes. "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." Then out. As they poured through the copy, they initially believed they were looking for a paedophile pretending to be Janet and grooming Mark. A boy has been cleared of murdering a 17-year-old he stabbed in the heart with a flick knife. This delay had also been an order Janet had provided, as it would have given John enough time to bleed to death. "I love you, bro," Mark told his younger friend as he plunged in the knife. Within short order, a devastated Mark was to learn his virtual girlfriend was deadgang-raped and then murdered by the mythical stalker and his cohorts. 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. We finally saw that the last person to use the laptop at John's house [before the stabbing] was Janet Dobinson.". An all-points bulletin was issued by Detective Chief Inspector Julian Ross, 43, a terse, authoritative figure with an iron jaw and a manner to match. "Staggering," said the judge who would hear his case. 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. tragedy it all was.". 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. Mr Ross added: "We have not come across any underlying things that would turn a child to do It was out of fear. 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. There wasn't just one teenager to charge in the attempted murder of young John, said Clarke, there were two. She liked to issue instructions. 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." Sally Hogg went directly to the prosecutor with the news. He was in many regards, an ordinary teenage lad. Nothing was impossible. Invention was so easy, "the equivalent of taking heroin," John thought. June 29, 2003 | 4:00am A headless and handless body washed onshore near La Guardia Airport yesterday, police said. "I am quite convinced it was a deliberate suicide attempt.". "And sometimes it would be a week or a few weeks before that character came back," always without a hitch, Hogg says. A criminal intelligence analyst, Sally Hogg, pored over 58,000 lines of text generated between them in six weeks. It's staggering to be dealing with a case that arises out of a 14-year-old boy's invention of false personalities, false relationships and events arranged for his own killing." It was through this character that he introduced himself to Mark, who promptly fell hard. Friday 3 December 2021, 5:53pm. [CDATA[// >