Dark Drakan
01-26-2006, 04:29 PM
A TEENAGER obsessed with a killer video game was yesterday found guilty of murdering his sister by torching his home in a twisted bid to slaughter his entire family.
The 16-year-old — who modelled himself on a half-human/half-demon PlayStation 2 character — also hit his brother with an axe leaving him brain-damaged.
The lad always wore black Goth clothes and called himself Dante after the killer character in 15-rated game Devil May Cry, the Old Bailey heard.
He launched the arson attack to rid himself of his family in the hope he would be adopted by a rich couple.
The boy — who was 14 at the time — outlined his plan in a note found by police. It read: “Operation New Life. Kill family. Lose memory. Get adopted by rich couple. It all starts.”
He axed his 12-year-old brother before starting the blaze in Lewisham, South London.
His parents and 16-year-old sister escaped but his 11-year-old sister died of smoke inhalation.
At first the lad lied that a gunman told him to carry out the attack.
Sir Allan Green, prosecuting, said the boy wrote a reminder to cut himself to make it look like “a demon had done it”.
Yesterday a jury convicted him of his sister’s murder by a 10-2 majority. He was also found guilty of attempting to murder his brother and arson with intent to endanger life.
His family — who stuck by him — said he was “a bit of a loner”. He was remanded in custody for pre-sentence reports.
Last night pressure group Mediawatch accused the games industry of “living in denial” of the consequences of their products.
SOURCE - THE SUN
Now watch all the watchdogs come in and say games should be banned because some pycho kid took it to seriously
The 16-year-old — who modelled himself on a half-human/half-demon PlayStation 2 character — also hit his brother with an axe leaving him brain-damaged.
The lad always wore black Goth clothes and called himself Dante after the killer character in 15-rated game Devil May Cry, the Old Bailey heard.
He launched the arson attack to rid himself of his family in the hope he would be adopted by a rich couple.
The boy — who was 14 at the time — outlined his plan in a note found by police. It read: “Operation New Life. Kill family. Lose memory. Get adopted by rich couple. It all starts.”
He axed his 12-year-old brother before starting the blaze in Lewisham, South London.
His parents and 16-year-old sister escaped but his 11-year-old sister died of smoke inhalation.
At first the lad lied that a gunman told him to carry out the attack.
Sir Allan Green, prosecuting, said the boy wrote a reminder to cut himself to make it look like “a demon had done it”.
Yesterday a jury convicted him of his sister’s murder by a 10-2 majority. He was also found guilty of attempting to murder his brother and arson with intent to endanger life.
His family — who stuck by him — said he was “a bit of a loner”. He was remanded in custody for pre-sentence reports.
Last night pressure group Mediawatch accused the games industry of “living in denial” of the consequences of their products.
SOURCE - THE SUN
Now watch all the watchdogs come in and say games should be banned because some pycho kid took it to seriously