A 14-year-old boy from Britain was murdered by a a video game predator he met while playing games online.
Breck Bednar, 14, met Lewis Daynes, 19, through Internet forum TeamSpeak, which was introduced to Breck by friends from his church, reported Mail Online. The forum allows you to chat with people online while playing games.
Bednar's mother, Lorin LaFave, was so suspicious of her son's new friend that she contacted police two months prior to the murder, explaining all of her concerns in a 30-minute phone call.
"No one bothered to call me back, which was unforgivable," she told Mail Online of her report to police. "I gave them Daynes' full name, the fact that he lived in Essex, but they did nothing. If they had acted on my information I have no doubt that this would not have happened."
The day before Bednar was murdered he told his parents that he was going to see a schoolfriend.
Bednar was actually getting in a taxi to go to Daynes' flat in Essex. Daynes, who is a computer engineer, apparently told Bednar that he would upgrade his computer, as Mail Online reported.
Instead of getting his computer upgrade Bednar was fatally stabbed in the neck by Daynes, who he thought was a friend.
"I can't begin to explain my feeling of helplessness and terror when I think of what Breck must have felt when the penny finally dropped and he realised he was in grave danger," Bednar's father said to Mail Online. "I hope that that was for a very short period of time. This is one of my most recurring nightmares."
Daynes took pictures of Bendar's dead body and posted them online. The pictures quickly began circulating the Internet, leading Bendar's siblings, 12-year-old triplets, to find out about their older brother's murder through friends.
"We never had any problems with him, he was in all the top groups and he was happy," LaFave told Mail Online. "While he wasn't naturally sporty he was an excellent swimmer and a good hockey player"
