Anxiety about the power of the internet to influence dangerous or vulnerable users probably reached a peak in 2004 when the headline ‘Killed by the Internet’ appeared in the Daily Mirror (5 February 2004) with a story about the sexually-motivated murder of a music teacher by a man who reportedly used images downloaded from the internet to fuel his deviant desires.
In fact there were a number of stories in circulation at the time that this gruesome headline could have referred to, including that of a German cannibal who killed, cooked and ate a man he had met over the internet and who was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison (a relatively lenient sentence following evidence that the victim had given his consent to being killed and eaten).
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