The boy, who can’t be named because he’s under the age of 18, is accused of murdering 16 year-old Charlotte Jolly in 2009, who was shot with a stolen rifle after an altercation in an alley.
To catch the teenager, local police asked the accused’s uncle to help them out. In exchange for dropping an outstanding drink-driving charge, he agreed to let police bug an Xbox 360 game and plant it in his house.
The uncle then invited the accused over and, after a marathon Guitar Hero session, the boy confessed to the shooting. He’s since been arrested and charged with second-degree murder.
Xbox game figures in murder investigation [CBC - Thanks Hayley!]
MrBS
Friday, May 6, 2011 at 4:07 PMRatting out family to get out of a drink driving charge. Stay classy.
Effluvium Boy
Friday, May 6, 2011 at 4:23 PMUm… His nephew murdered a young girl…
Doug Sherry
Friday, May 6, 2011 at 4:37 PMStill, he should have been bribed to do it.
Doug Sherry
Friday, May 6, 2011 at 4:37 PM*shouldn’t*
706
Friday, May 6, 2011 at 7:18 PMI’m with MrBS, it is pretty poor that he helped the police in exchange for them dropping charges of his.
Mokylock
Friday, May 6, 2011 at 4:15 PMMy first reaction to reading this was – Good, little bastard murdered someone, and now he’ll be punished for it.
My second reaction, only a fraction of a second later was – That uncle is an asshole… and a drunk. The police allowed a potential future vehicular manslaughter-ist walk scott free and all he had to do was sell out his brother’s or sister’s kid.
Shame the uncle didnt forget the place was bugged while in his Bacardi-addled state, and let slip that his nephew “shouldnt worry about it… he’s run over plenty of people on big nights and nobody ever came knocking on his door.”
Corteks
Friday, May 6, 2011 at 4:21 PMBugged xbox game?
By that they mean bugged console right?
Like, they didn’t somehow recompile a game with mystical “software microphones” in it so it would record them speaking did they? :P
Effluvium Boy
Friday, May 6, 2011 at 4:25 PMCould have been the box/case for a game.
Guy
Friday, May 6, 2011 at 4:32 PMOr they bugged the guitar, which is more likely.
Corteks
Friday, May 6, 2011 at 5:59 PMFar more amusing too.
Watch out when you’re blasting out some hot licks, the police might come and getcha!
The Hon. Reverend Fred Gherkin
Friday, May 6, 2011 at 6:07 PMMaybe it was the microphone the uncle or kid was singing into. Instead of being plugged into the Xbox, it was plugged into a recorder.
ThrashTitan
Friday, May 6, 2011 at 4:32 PMMy comprehension wasnt working too well on my first read through. I read “outstanding” as “very excellent”; not “pre-existing”.
Allan
Friday, May 6, 2011 at 5:24 PM“Well done old chap,that was a magnificent display of drink driving, one might even go as far as to say it was outstanding!” Hahaha
Anonymous
Friday, May 6, 2011 at 4:40 PMThis just goes to show how hypocritical and unjust law enforcement is … Let someone else get away with a crime in exchange for having else charged for committing a crime. Why should this man not be punished for the same misdemeanor as anyone else? He didn’t do anything noble; he sold out his nephew for his own selfish gain. It’s disgusting.
ray martin
Friday, May 6, 2011 at 5:04 PMwell who knew, crime… nobody wins!
Dire Wolf
Friday, May 6, 2011 at 5:09 PMExcept the Uncle
Stamperrific aka Jakob Smolinski
Friday, May 6, 2011 at 5:31 PMI don’t think there’s enough data to determine what actually happened at face value. The cops would have probably exhausted all other plausible avenues of investigation before taking these steps. Letting someone off a drink driving charge is not a minor thing, so I’m sure they didn’t do it lightly, and I suspect the challenge they faced was that nobody was willing to dob the little prick in.. I applaud the lateral thinking applied by the authorities!
Harry
Friday, May 6, 2011 at 9:37 PMGODAMIT DEXTER!
Jack
Friday, May 6, 2011 at 9:45 PMDon’t you guys ever watch The Shield? This kinda thing happens all the time.
Excellent accompanying pic, by the way, gave me a giggle.
N0NEoftheAB0VE
Saturday, May 7, 2011 at 7:28 AMLOL I was thinking exactly the same thing, The Shield: let the petty crooks run free in order to catch the bigger fish.