(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); A 13-year-old boy slashed his 14-year-old friend's throat after disagreements while playing online video games. The two children are from Clydebank in Scotland's West Dunbartonshire council area and the incident occurred in April last year.

The Glasgow High Court was told the two children first met online, in December two years ago, while playing Gears of War 3 on the Xbox; Microsoft Studios' video game is certified 18 by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC).

The children would often play football with other children and there was no reason for any fight until about a month before the incident. At that time there were online arguments and the court was told this included name calling over games' messaging systems.

And on the date of the attack, the victim and another boy were travelling to another friend's house when they met the accused. The court heard the boys may have had an argument before the attack but the victim was unable to recall the episode clearly.



Finally, it is understood the attacker cut the victim's throat and said "don't die" before walking away. The BBC reports the victim suffered a deep wound that needed 20 stitches.

Apologetic Messages

The attacker later messaged his victim, writing: "Honestly you don't know how upset I am. I'm sitting here on the Xbox just to say I'm sorry bro."



A second message, on the day of the attack, said: "I know you won't accept my apology and I know I'm going to get the jail, but I am actual so upset and so down."

Violent Games Blamed

"These games are rated 18 and shouldn't be played by children of this young age," Scottish Police Federation chairman Brian Docherty stated, adding, "But online gaming may be outside their parents' knowledge. We need to look again at what we can do to stop this."

"The reporting officer was of the opinion that the violent video games played online by the accused may have been a factor in his conduct," Andrew Brown, Prosecutor, QC, added.

The accused, now 14, will be sentenced later this month.

Microsoft's Statement

Meanwhile, in response to the incident, Microsoft have released a statement, saying: "We have some of the most robust parental control systems to empower parents to decide how their children play and communicate. We have the greatest sympathy for the victim and his family."


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I don't think it was the video game's fault... The kid was clearly unstable if he pulled a knife on a kid after playing a video game with him.

13 year old's on a 18+ game. what else is there to say?:think:

"Gears of War 3 on the Xbox; Microsoft Studios' video game is certified 18 by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC)."
"certified 18 by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC)"

Looks like a fine case of Bad Parenting. You can't blame video games for this. The children shouldn't have been playing those games at that age. To be fair I was play GTA at that age and much younger but my parents were blissfully unaware of the content of those games and it's done me no harm. Though for a child to go and do that to a friend they'd have to mentally unstable becuase even from a young age I knew not to do something like that I think my limit was beating a person with a tree branch and at the time I had steam coming out of my ears.



You're joking right, punishing the parents is one thing, but sending them to prison is just plain moronic and a waste of prison space. What good would it do incarcerating them for something like that? I'd say the kid should be put in an institution and the parents made to pay for it.

I have played violent video games since I was 10 playing CoD and im now 15 and I would consider myself violent to the extent that kid was and I honestly hope he goes away for a long time I wish his parents would too.

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Totally agree. To damn lazy to take care of their kids, well now you kid is fucked up in the brain have fun taking them to court on the count of murder fucktards.

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Thats not even funny dude fuck off. Your telling me if someone dislike you and they cut ur throat you'd be "ok" with it, didn't thinks so, so please think before you post something incredibly so damn mind blowing retarded on the internet.

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Because you Signature says "Be sure to like/thank/rep me if you found my post helpful." which is rude and basically begging for rep on a different altitude.

How is it rude if you ask for rep or like, if you find the post it was useful. You make no sense at all

Well yeah if you like the post then sure go ahead and like it but don't beg people for rep it's rude at least to me and this is how people get negged. I think it's rude because some people work hard for their high rep lets take Vince a former staff member who has 9k+ post most of them useful and he also helps a lot of people and I don't see him asking for rep, likes, and thanks, or did me and my sister get out contacts mixed up again.

Surely is he said 'if you found my post helpful' is just a reminder. It's not like 'he's saying please can everyone give me a like! '

True.

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He is no asking just for rep and like, he is just asking for it if you find it useful