This delay had also been an order Janet had provided, as it would have given John enough time to bleed to death. No madman in a hooded jacket, the authorities quickly realized, would ever be found. Nonetheless, there were enough absurdities to warrant re-examination. Dobinson had answers for everything. Since seeing a psychologist, John's mother informed the court, John had been getting along nicely with her live-in companion. The police concluded John was the mastermind behind it all; he was every character in that chat room, the puppet master pulling the strings whilst Mark played the role of puppet. The beautiful Rachel West, whom he had loved, wooed, and honestly mourned, was Johnas was Kevin, who reveled in the bloody details of her gang rape and murder. A criminal intelligence analyst, Sally Hogg, pored over 58,000 lines of text generated between them in six weeks. He has told his therapist about his lies to his girlfriend. 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. Mark was no help at all. For their protection, the true identity of these boys cannot be revealed, they are simply known as John (14) and Mark (16). said. The fictions created by John, then 14, convinced Mark that he was murdering someone who had a terminal brain tumour. It is clear he doesn't have much sympathy for the boy whose brush with death prompted the unprecedented charge. "It has to be big to stab him and make him bleed to death.". John's mother discovered her son was at the home of an older boy named Mark, about whom she knew nothing. Advertisement "That was the stumbling point for me. 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. "He said if he had not created Rachel, then Mark would not have wanted to get close to him," Dr. Kirsty Smedley, a Manchester psychologist, wrote after interviewing John subsequent to his arrest. 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. Undated family handout photo issued by Greater Manchester Police of 15-year-old Jakub Szymanski, known as Kuba to his family . Nicholas Clarke, prosecuting, told the court, This case serves as a stark warning of the dangers of the dark side of the internet.. He found he was never tired. Under the keyboard of his computer he kept a kitchen knife. Writing only in capital letters, Janet convinced Mark she was a spy and he was the reason she had joined the chat room, to recruit him into MI5. January 13, 2004: New York, NY FKL. 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. With whom could he discuss the activities of his imaginary heroines and villains? The teenager died in hospital after he was found with stab wounds following a. Or, more anxiously, "Are you O.K.?" Rhamero West was taken to hospital after he was found with stab wounds in Norton Street, Old Trafford, at about 18:00 BST on. In addition, police managed to recover dialogue from "unallocated clusters," data in storage space the computer is no longer using for active files. "John said he invented other personas in the chat room in order to keep Mark interested in him," one therapist was later to learn. Boy A admitted attempted murder and Boy B has admitted incitement to murder. Except to his room. On June 28, 2003, the "Spy" and Boy A planned the killing in achatroom: 8.50pm Boy A: he will die in the middle of alti?? That girl was in fact the younger boy.". Police. this sort of thing. John and Mark then physically met, as did their parents, but in the chatroom John introduced increasingly far-fetched characters, including another boy who "stalked" John and supposedly killed his girlfriend. Mark had even been given a codename, 47695, and been provided with an abort code, 6969, should the mission be cancelled. Next to it is the headline BOY STABBED. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of Terms and Conditions. He was the kind of teenager who needed every last detail spelled out. [CDATA[// >