Manhunt Twist

Gamesindustry.biz has the latest on the Manhunt story which has caused so much furore over the last week, and prompted me to rail against the games industry:

Police involved in the Stefan Pakeerah murder case have revealed that the copy of Manhunt at the centre of a tabloid media frenzy last week was found in the possession of the victim, not the killer.

The story also poses the question of how the British media’s behaviour during this story:

The tabloid press, in particular the extremist right-wing Daily Mail newspaper, have already been heavily criticised for ignoring the police reports and prosecution statements which gave the motive for the murder as robbery, with LeBlanc killing his younger friend in order to pay back a drugs-related debt. Few tabloid stories made any mention of the drugs angle.

Somehow, I doubt that they’ll print any kind of retraction. However, this doesn’t change anything regarding the behaviour of Rockstar, ELSPA and the other relevent parties that I wrote about yesterday.