Resident Evil Blamed For UK Murder

A UK based newspaper published in Norfolk has blamed the torturing and murder of a man on the popular survival horror franchise, Resident Evil.

[moegooner88]

"The attack included horrible acts of mutilation such as pouring boiling water on the victim and inflicting cuts and burns all over his body", i am guessing Resident Evil taught him this as well /s

[omi25p]

No cooking mama taught him to boil water.

[thorstein]

So, he didn't learn any of it from the Inquisition? nor current Sharia Law? nor from the Bible or Torah?

No, from a video game about killing Zombies. That's believable!/s

[ChronoJoe]

Doesn't really sound like it was blamed, just likened to? Might be wrong.

[knowyourstuff]

There is a reason the British press has been credited as being nothing more than a giant tabloid fest full of nonsense, it's even worse than the US and that's unbelievably hard to accomplish.

Unlike thorstein ^ and others looking for a scapegoat, there is no one to blame but the killer himself, period.

[adorie]

LMAO!

[BongSmack]

The paper that reported this didn't make any mistakes, MMOGameCentral however dropped the ball with the misleading headline-no one *blamed* resident evil for the killings (according to the article "The *comparison* to the Resident Evil games came from one of the killers as he *compared* the alcohol driven attack to the graphic video-games"). So yeah no blame just a comparison.

I Definitely agree only the killers can be blamed.

[andibandit]

the whole reason RE got mentioned in this is because one of the killers comapared the act with Resident Evil.

[Spinal]

Looooooool funniest comment ever.

[gaffyh]

This is based on info from "one of the killers", who most likely was trying to get off a murder charge by "blaming it on video games", which obviously didn't work. What they did to this guy was plain sick.

[geddesmond]

A game doesn't give you the will and darkness needed to kill someone. If someone has premeditated murder on their minds its down to traumatic events in their lives, a very bad up bringing or they're just natural born killers as some would say.

There is no torture like that in any of the RE games I've played and I've played 9 or 10 different RE games. I don't even remember any type of torture in the games what so ever but it has been years since I've played some of the titles.

[xXBlondieVanHarlowXx]

Minor charges were placed against Mr. Roys, Mr. Brown and Ms. Cooke. But the video game series itself will face the death penalty.

Update: The prisoner Resident Evil was taken over to Capcom headquarters to await it's execution.

Update: After being brutally tortured with 3 devastating tools (torture tools only known as RE5, RE:ORC and RE6) the game was officially announced dead on October 2, 2012 at the young age of only 6.

R.I.P Resident Evil 1998-2012

[CalvinKlein]

I think they should all get shot for doing that. Or at least life in prison or the death(what we do to best friend dogs peaceful death)penalty.

This has nothing to do with resident evil but if you commit sadistic acts mentioning a videogame at your trial gets you at least -10 years from your sentence usually.

[kparks]

No the should tie them all down and do to them what they did to this poor guy and see how they like it! STREET JUSTICE STYLE!!

[Cajun Chicken]

And I bet the Saw collection of movies next to his two games were ignored.

[CaptainCamper]

Lmao, probably not far off with that comment :D

[Hellsvacancy]

Playing Res 6 may make me want to do that to myself, but not someone else

Who takes newspapers seriously anyway?

[CaptainCamper]

They aim for a totally different demographic to video-games. I don't know anyone under 40 that reads a newspaper and most of them think video-games are the work of Satan. So makes sense to pin the blame on a computer game :D

[Cyb3r]

They said this was blamed on the survival horror franchise Resident Evil, this isnt a survival horror franchise last time I checked infact it hasnt been for over 11 years

[LiquidSword93]

What?....how bizarre. Feel sorry for the guy.

[HammadTheBeast]

It must have been grueling... RIP.

[AzaziL]

Too bad an eye for an eye cannot apply to this case, some people really deserve the punishment they brought upon others.

[Pintheshadows]

I live in Norfolk and trust me when I say this. These 'people' did not become this disturbed from playing Resi. They were disturbed and twisted as they were all from Yarmouth.

The only place worse than Yarmouth is Jaywick in Essex.

[HaMM4R]

Or Wisbech

[mac_sparrow]

A couple of Norfolkians above me I see. The mentioning of Wisbech surely puts you in King's Lynn right?

[Pintheshadows]

If I mention Birmingham does that put me in an adjacent town? Of course not.

You know there is this amazing thing called 'going to other places'.

[thorstein]

Or New Jersey.

[Pintheshadows]

Haha, I never thought i'd hear someone compare Great Yarmouth to New Jersey.

[RedSoakedSponge]

Norwich FTW!!! XD

[Animal Mutha 76]

Swaffham FTW!

And yes Jaywick is worse than Yarmouth.

[Perjoss]

I blame real life murders for being the inspiration for violent video games.

[mafiahajeri]

Nice oxymoron lol

[AllroundGamer]

it was all a plan by Crapcom... making the next RE so bad, that people would go on a rampage.

[RAFFwaff]

As the murderer was taken into custody, he was apparently heard shouting that Dead Space is NOT as good as Resi, and that Jesus had agreed with him during bingo the day before....

[MariaHelFutura]

What else is new?

[GTRrocker666]

I would have believed this story if it was a suicide

[dennett316]

The newspaper didn't blame the murder on Resident Evil, one of the murderers made the comparison in a sad effort for more publicity and a possible defence for their actions by implying the game made them do it.

And no, Resident Evil isn't about horrific torture on this level. This headline is more sensationalist than the comment by the killer...the paper didn't blame the game, they reported that one of the killers mentioned it. Now it's suddenly the Resident Evil murder...sad that the real story gets hidden behind the sensationalist crap, just what the killer wanted.

[Tetsujin]

You know the media, they needed something to blame (not the newspaper but another source) and they found it

[Pintheshadows]

Surprise surprise, it was originally the Daily Mail who ran with this story.

The same publication that thinks everything gives you cancer.

[BongSmack]

is that sarcasm? I'm just wondering if you're really surprised or not, since it seems to me the article hasn't actually made any accusations.

[TopDudeMan]

Must have been them darn video games and their violence. They sound like bloody technophobic grandparents.

[Cam977]

Is he sure the local butcher wasn't responsible? They are very violent in how they cut up meat!

[Pintheshadows]

My local butcher is funny.

He told me a great story once. His then 12 year old son had been doing poorly in school and had got into a few fights. Telling me he'd tried regular discipline and it hadn't sunk in he decided to get imaginative. Waiting for his son to be asleep for at least an/a (a hour doesn't sound right) hour, he donned a white apron which he had smeared in blood, and a surgical mask and burst into his sons room brandishing a carving knife and jumped onto the foot of his sons bed breathing heavily.

The moral of the story. Don't mess with butchers, they're mental.

[TheFirstClassic]

Holy shit I would probably piss myself if that happened.

[mynameisEvil]

There was a butcher named Pete (at least I think it was Pete). From what I remember, he loved choppin' up all the women's meat.

But, yeah...

[BongSmack]

He's hackin' and wackin' and smackin'

[hadouken182]

Noone cares.

[Dogswithguns]

And they gave this game a super low scores on the reviews.. ?!

[InTheLab]

Meanwhile, thousands die every year in the name of various fictitious magic men named Jesus and Moh...oops....just saying that gets you and RPG to the face...

[Deadpool616]

I didn't expect you to be so intolerant of others beliefs. I'm disappointed in this comment.

[InTheLab]

Cant please everyone.

And the fact that I'm not a true believer does not mean I'm intolerant.

I thought my comment was historically accurate but if I'm wrong, I don't mind being corrected...

[greatcrusader44]

Ah yes because Jesus and Mohammad weren't real people at all, totally fictitious. /sarcasm

[Bonerboy]

Awesome!

[Lordchunk]

wow all you people telling stories about absolute crap what is wrong with you people the story is a man was tortured no need to talk about crap.

[jd666]

It's easier than doing real journalism I suppose!!

[007Bond]

This is what happens when the child is born into a screwed up family, or is raised the wrong way.

[chiefdog11]

Typical, gotta place the blame on anything else except for where it belongs. Same way every time someone commits a "satanic" killing it's the fault of Slayer or some other similar band. No one can take responsibility for their own actions anymore.

[CaptainCamper]

To those of you more knowledgeable about Resident Evil 6. Does this actually relate to anything in the game at all?

[jghvhv]

Nope,nothing.I don't know how RE can be blamed for this.

[dennett316]

It's not about Resident Evil 6 specifically....the murder occurred in May, they just mentioned "Resident Evil".
And again, no-one was really blaming the game, just the killers used that name to describe the aftermath of what they'd done.

[SaffronCurse]

Grand theft auto taught me how to drive

[Rivitur]

Weird Mario Kart taught me but now I swerve every time I see a banana peel on the road.

[Acadius]

I feel horrible for the victim. I can't imagine that kind of torture. My heart goes out to the family of the victim.

[Richdad]

yes I agree this is no joke. The injury done to the victim was horrible. I cannot believe how can some one do something like that even to an enemy.

Killing is really bad. BUt a tourture killing like this is insane, inhuman and a sin to the greatest degree.

[Whore_Mouth]

Or you could blame the 42 year old dude that most likely got into the two younger peoples heads.

[AzaziL]

Amazing how that went completely ignored, figuring the perp was only a couple years younger than the vic, this was more a premeditated act than a random one.

[GamerEuphoria]

This is hugely misleading, the game has never been blamed for the killing. All that was said was the murder looked like something from Resident Evil. Shame on you for exploiting and misleading, much like most of the news papers we all criticize.

[Kopite_2020]

This has come from one of the killers saying the scene was like Resident Evil, considering what he did I don't think we should be taking his comments literally.

[kma2k]

Wait i cant be the only one who caught the fact that the murder says according the article in may but yet re6 came out last week? The murdered was from the future?

[Sarcasm]

They didn't say Resident Evil 6, just Resident Evil.

Although it still makes no sense how it has zero relations to that franchise.

This is just a sadistic act by insane people.

[jay2]

Of f off, people that do this sort of things aren't in the real world if they can't define a video games/movies actions to what you can do in real life with no consequences, they're just not right in the head, don't blame movies and game for crime, blame real peoples mental state, I'm not even reading this article.

[Qrphe]

That's scary, at ANY MOMENT any of us could snap and kill someone in the most cruel way because of something we might've seen in a videogame or TV show.

Moving with the Amish this weekend.

[MasterD919]

I don't see how this murder was based on RE6...

As for the victim, that is horrendous and a horrific way to go. I feel for him and his family.

These people shouldn't even be in jail. Bury them alive.

[Drainage]

who approves this shit

[Adolph Fitler]

Morons are always looking for a scape goat, blame for the Worlds problems, instead of just the facts.

Plain & simply there are just evil people in the world, just as there are good people & everything in between.
Murderers that do this kind of thing are sociopathic, psychopaths. Which in order for the lamen to understand, just means that there are people out there that crave killing someone like a "normal" person craves sex or icecream, or drugs/alcohol, & because they have detached feelings, they feel no remorse or sympathy for anyone but themselves (especially when caught).
They use any & every excuse they can to shift blame & try to soften the blow to themselves.

People are TOO scared to face facts, thats why many people find god before dying, because they don't want to believe scientific fact, that when we die, we die....theres no living on in fricken heaven or any of that other balony written in that fairy tale book they call the Bible. And there are people out there that have computational faults in there brain that means they are pre-dispositioned to acts of varying horrors, attrocities & crimes against humanity, from serial killers to serial rapists, from pedophiles to beastiality to necrophilia...........there are varying degrees of whackjobs out there, but there are just people like that, that no matter what are gonna root a pig, rape a kid or cut multiple peoples heads off....thats just the way it is.

My question is always the same to these wannabe intellectuals & bleeding hearts that are always campaigning to ban rock, heavy metal, rap, violent movies, violents games,.......I always ask the same question, "then what did Jack The Ripper listen to, watch or play?".

This guy would have blamed Marilyn Manson if Resident Evil didn't exist, or if not Marilyn, Rambo, or Freddy Krueger..........the trend in modern society is for lawyer scum to find scapegoats for there clients, to help soften there sentence & appeal to jurors that this person was once just a normal little boy/girl, who happend to put a form of entertainment media in there player of choice that totally corrupted there formally beautiful, innocent mind & turned them into a killer, baby rapist, dogrooter, or whatever.

Bullshit, people are just f%$ked up, in varying degrees of severity. And for me, like a rabid dog that bites someone that is put down, bring the death penalty back WORLDWIDE. Killers that kill for no reason & are guilty without a shadow of doubt, fry em', same with child molestorers, rapists & such....kill em' all & let your fake god sort em' out.

[BongSmack]

"My question is always the same......"
Totally agree with that paragraph.

"This guy would have blamed Marilyn Manson if Resident Evil didn't exist. "
I'm not so sure about that. The article doesn't mention any music movies or games being blamed.

[yeahokchief]

Yep a game as horrible as this can drive people to do some stupid stuff.

All of the quicktime events cloud their minds and limit their ablity to do things like think for themselves.

All of the frustration and rage of having to play through a lousy piece of garbage like this must weigh heavily on the mind.

Ban this game everywhere. It caters to and in effect creates the Lowest Common Denominator.

[AngelicIceDiamond]

He just had to say the words "Resident Evil" There goes the integrity of Video games again.

As far as what happened, this is just plain sick you have to be mentally unstable to partake in such acts. 18 years isn't long enough for those individuals.

[Saturne3]

Those fukin people arent "mentaly ill" put those fukers in a hungry lion´s cage.

[dcortz2027]

Nah, people like that are sick f*cks that are just messed up in the head.

[Kran]

"The comparison to the Resident Evil games came from one of the killers as he compared the alcohol driven attack to the graphic video-games."

In other words, he wanted to have the last laugh at the games industry before he went down. Dick. Murdering then blaming games. >:l

[esemce]

FFS! the BBC are calling them the resident evil killers:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/u...