Man gets life for killing game-obsessed partner
Woman stayed up all night with Niko Bellic
A man has been sentenced to life in prison after killing his partner, who’d become hooked on Grand Theft Auto.
Carol Cannom, 46, from Lincolnshire, installed a 37in plasma TV in the couple’s bedroom and would regally stay up to the wee small hours playing the game on a PlayStation 3, night after night.
But Cannom’s relationship with her partner – 62-year-old Malcolm Palmer – quickly soured as a result.
Cannom ordered her partner out of the bedroom while she played on the PS3. Painter retreated to watch portable TV in a cold conservatory, the BBC reported.
Also, he became convinced that his wife was having an affair, but this was an entirely mistaken belief, the court was told.
Palmer, who seemingly could handle Cannom’s GTA addiction no longer, attacked her with two knives - stabbing her in the upper chest 20 times.
The couple’s son called for an ambulance, but Palmer grabbed the phone and told emergency operators: “I’m sorry. I think I’ve killed her.”
Palmer, who admitted to the murder, will spend at least 14 years behind bars before being considered for parole. ®
COMMENTS
A very insecure man
If she was addicted to GTA4 when did she have enough time to have an affair?
He seems like a very insecure man who didn't know how to communicate his feelings/fears and just lost the plot.
well
come on guys, you're slacking, you should know there is *always* a way to twist any story to fit with a government agenda:
if this game had been banned then she wouldn't have been playing it so this incident would never have happened and another life would have been saved, therefore banning violent games will save lives, think of the women!
proof?
Thus proving that GTA and other violent video games do, in fact, cause people to become violent.
Just not those playing them.
Threesome!
"Cannom ordered her partner out of the bedroom while she played on the PS3. Painter retreated to watch portable TV in a cold conservatory, the BBC reported."
Her playing was so bad that the third person in bed went to another room. Cannom, Palmer (hubby/boyfriend) and Painter!!
How considerate
As a GTA4 addict it's how she would have wanted to go.
