| Bring Me The Horizon's OLI SYKES responds to murder plot incident. |
| Written by Shahlin Graves |
| Wednesday, 12 October 2011 22:25 |
 A twenty-year-old British man David Russell, has been sentenced to serve a minimum of seventeen-and-a-half years in prison after posing as Bring Me The Horizon frontman OLI SYKES as part of a kidnap and murder plot. Russell posed as Sykes online to lure an American teenage girl [Maricar Benedicto] to England to meet him, then stabbed her four times in a woodland area near Northampton. Sykes has issued a statement on the case: "I woke up to the news in LA, and didn't really believe it at first. It's very unsettling. I'm aware that people have used my identity for pranks and whatever, which has always been something that's been uncomfortable for me, but for something like this to happen is terrifying. My heart goes out to Maricar and hope she recovers soon. I would also urge anyone using social networking sites about a really great foundation called the Carly Ryan foundation. Carly suffered a fate worse even worse than this case but the story isn't worlds apart. The foundation was set up to raise awareness and educate people on the risks of meeting people online. Stay safe and be careful." Carlyryanfoundation.com |
