Mark, who is also from a middle-class family in Greater Manchester, was given a two-year supervision order for attempted murder. He was given a three-year supervision order, banned from contacting Mark or using the internet without strict adult supervision. John, from Greater Manchester, pleaded guilty at Manchester crown court to incitement to murder and perverting the course of justice. The boy - who is now 15 and can be referred to only as John for legal reasons - persuaded his friend, known as Mark, now 17, to stab him to death in order to pass a fictitious initiation test for the British secret services in a meticulously planned attack one Sunday evening last summer. "This case serves as a stark warning of the dangers of the dark side of the internet," Nicholas Clarke, prosecuting, told the court yesterday. An intricate web of deceit had been spun by the boy on the chatroom to recruit another teenager as his would-be killer.
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