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FACEBOOK PRISONER GOES ON VIRTUAL MURDER SPREE |
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26-06-09 |
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A PSYCHOTIC convict has killed a dozen people on the social networking website Facebook by sending them a message saying 'Rob has just murdered you'.
 Dozens of officers are chasing Hodder using the flashing blue light function
He now faces the real possibility of being sent a picture of a noose.
Dan Parkins, from Walsall, was one of those killed: "When I accepted a friend request from Rob I thought maybe he was someone I met in the chai tent at the Big Chill. Then he updated his status to 'Rob wants to wear your skin.'
"Next thing I knew, a tiny picture of a knife appeared on the screen next to a message saying I'd been murdered. It's tragic - I had so much to look forward to in life and my death is a great loss."
Chief Inspector Guy Lawson, who is leading the investigation into the murders, said: "What's particularly shocking about this case is that only minutes after his first attack the killer had uploaded a funny picture of a cheese slice that looks like a face.
"Hodder is a shockingly callous man and once we've found him on Facebook and joined his network we fully intend to use the Do A Hanging function."
A spokesperson for Facebook said: 'When we introduced the 'Do A Brutal Murder' feature we clearly overestimated our users' ability to differentiate between reality - as in things that actually exist - and the pretend world of tawdry self-promotion and nauseatingly contrived quirkiness that is our website."
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