ShortHand: Chatroom Hitman

In June 2003 when a teenage boy was stabbed in a Manchester alleyway – it was sad, but nothing unbelievable. 

Little did anyone know that in reality, behind this attack lay an entire world of fake online personalities, underwater fortunes, and international espionage…

This is the story of a 14-year-old boy who organised his own murder.

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Sources:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2005/02/bachrach200502
https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/5895832.youth-16-quizzed-over-alley-stab-boy/
https://medium.com/crimebeat/how-a-british-14-year-old-boy-was-charged-with-plotting-his-own-murder-e0e70018ac4c https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/internet-murder-boys-told-never-1110248
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh4xsaOA514
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2004/may/29/crime.uknews
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/boy-14-posed-as-spy-to-arrange-his-own-murder-565124.html
https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/article/the-boy-who-incited-his-own-murder

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