A teenager was jailed for life on Friday for murdering another boy in a row over a games console. Shane Boyd, 16, stabbed Conor Black to death after confronting him outside a party in Manchester over the alleged theft of an Xbox console, police said. Manchester Crown Court heard that joinery student Black, also 16, was attacked after he arrived with friends at a house party in August last year. Boyd approached him, struck him on the head with a can of beer and then stabbed him in the back with a kitchen knife as he tried to escape. Black managed to get away from the house but collapsed a short distance away and died on the way to hospital. His killer then bragged to people at the party that he was "the best" and threatened to kill anyone who gave his name to the police. Sentencing him to at least 11 years behind bars, the judge said using a knife was no way to settle a row about a games console. "We are all devastated by Conor's death," his family said in a statement. "All the hopes and dreams of a family were crushed when Conor's life was stolen in that terrible, violent way." Britain has seen a rise in violent street crime involving teenagers in the last year, with two youngsters stabbed to death in London Thursday alone. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20090220/tuk-life-us-britain-xbox-fa6b408.html
wow just wow....... another Xbox killing incident >.< i hate these younger generation of kids, annoys me a lot. chavs especially........
^ true, i dont get these people, how can you stick a knife into another human being knowing you wont get away with it. these people shouldn't live in normal society ever again, if i had my way they would be put on an island or remote area were they can live amoungst peope like themselves.
A lot of stupid things happen when you lose control over your emotions. It's stupid but people had died for less.
whats with all these kids these days killing because of xbox, its only a console, it is not worth killing over
now you can get stabbed for accidentally stepping on some dudes trainers, wonder if this was over the 360 or the original..
^ i hope it was over the 360, I mean, the XBOX is okay, but the 360 is awesome. Especially if it has SFIV inside.
lol,me too because it was hard for me to get the console... I was even angry at someone i lend my playstation as he broke the joystick...
"Sentencing him to at least 11 years behind bars, the judge said using a knife was no way to settle a row about a games console." So does it mean that if he use a knife to steal a car then it wouldn't been 11 years? b/c it sure seems like it..
i read this in the newspaper today....and hes been jailed for life did ya read whut happened...? he stabbed him coz his friend borrowed a xbox game and didnt return it...
