The Daily Star has put its tabloid size twelves firmly in the sticky stuff, making an assertion that a sick video game was to be made out of the Raoul Moat tragedy.
In an article which has now been taken down, the paper claimed that unnamed “gaming websites” had put up a boxshot of the planned game Grand Theft Auto: Rothbury.
Of course, there’s no such game in the works, and the fact that the Daily Star’s journalist fell for the crude mocked up boxshot of the game, which had clearly been cobbled together by some tasteless teenager in a bedroom somewhere, is quite frankly staggering.
As is the fact that the journalist in question, Jerry Lawton, evidently didn’t bother to check any further than the pathetic looking box grab before he published the story.
And indeed before he contacted the grandmother of Samantha Stobbart, the ex-partner of Moat who was shot and badly injured by him, for comment on what she thought of the game. “It is sick – it’s blood money,” she told the paper; “The game is beyond belief.”
Of course it’s beyond belief, it’s ridiculous. And ridiculous that the Star has managed to further upset the victim’s family by feeding them such rubbish.
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Daily Star in Raoul Moat GTA: Rothbury game blunder
