Game blamed for hammer murder
This is a horrible horrible story with such a nasty murder - sald yof a 14 year old, carried out by a 17 year old.
The victims mum blames some of the motive on a particularly nasty computer game called Manhunt (cert 18).
"To quote from the website that promotes it, it calls it a psychological experience, not a game, and it encourages brutal killing."
Obviously the games inductry disagree:
A spokesman for the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers' Association said: "We sympathise enormously with the family and parents of Stefan Pakeerah. However, we reject any suggestion or association between the tragic events and the sale of the video game Manhunt. The game in question is classified 18 by the British Board of Film Classification and therefore should not be in the possession of a juvenile. Simply being in someone's possession does not and should not lead to the conclusion that a game is responsible for these tragic events."
Dixons have today withdrawn this game from their stores.
There is another story on the BBC too - American children acting out scenes from Grand Theft Auto . One man was killed and a woman was badly hurt when William Buckner, 16, and his step-brother Joshua, 14, decided to relieve their boredom by opening fire on traffic on Interstate 40 with a .22-calibre rifle.
Any thoughts? Can our children be so obsessed by games they can end up doing this??? Surely something more must be leading to these horrid attacks???
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Can computer games really be blamed for vilent crimes?
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Hulababy · 29/07/2004 13:34
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