Following a spate of con artists tricking pensioners into withdrawing money from the bank while under mobile phone instruction, a Japanese bank has started to use jamming devices to stop mobiles being used near its ATMs.
A teenager has been jailed indefinitely after being convicted of committing sex attacks on four women. Ryan Chinnery, 19, chav, prowled the streets in his car looking for victims after “obsessively” playing Grand Theft Auto for “hours on end”, as well as doing other utterly irrelevant things like indulging in an unhealthy amount of pornography and getting high on a cocktail of cannabis and alcohol.
Now that GTA: Chinatown Wars is out of the bag it’s time for more unruly kids to blame their outpourings of rage on the franchise. That’s what one teen did after deciding to barbecue some cars.
As if pulling Grand Theft Auto IV from Thai shelves wasn’t overreacting, the Thai Ministry of Health has drawn up a shortlist of the ten most dangerous games.
Crime caper Grand Theft Auto IV has been yanked off Thailand’s shelves after a teen confessed to murdering a taxi driver, having been inspired by the carjacking title.