Gaming Blamed For Cheryl Moss Murder

A few weeks have passed since Chruchgate, and if the current GAMES MADE MY SON KILL headline that is sitting atop of the News Of The World website is anything to go by, sensationalistic, one sided journalism is about to return to the mass media once again.

The latest report for the site, written by a Caps Lock loving Guy Basnett and Catherine Jones, opens by telling the reader Stuart Harling, the 18-year-old convicted of stabbing nurse Cheryl Moss to death, killed her “just like he’d PRACTISED on the PlayStation in his bedroom.” It then goes on to paint the picture that “every night he would retreat into his darkened bedroom at home in Rainham, Essex, and enter a grisly virtual world that revelled in sadism, ritual blood-letting and death. Just like millions of other youngsters. One of baby-faced Harling’s favourite games was the notorious Manhunt, where players SLASH and SLICE their victims with meat CLEAVERS, cheese WIRE and CHAINSAWS, or suffocate them with plastic bags.”

The news piece then goes on to tell the view of the boys mother, who claims in this exclusive interview that his violent behaviour was triggered by playing videogames. “I knew he was playing the videogames but we didn’t really know what went on in them, how brutal and graphic they were. Stuart was 11 or 12 when I bought him the PlayStation. For a long time I didn’t even realise games had age limits on them. We’d just buy him the game that all the other kids had. I didn’t really know what they were about. I think most parents are the same,” she is quoted as saying on the site.

“I know these games are played by kids across the world, but some are truly horrific. And if they can cause a trigger to be pulled in someone’s head they should be banned,” she concludeds