Father kills partner because she played too much PS3

The newspapers love to run stories about someone who committed murder “because” they played too many videogames. How ironic then, that passive aggressive newspaper The Telegraph is running a story about someone who committed murder because the victim was playing too many games. You can’t win either way!

62-year-old Malcolm Palmer killed the mother of his three children after she became addicted to Grand Theft Auto. Carol Cannom, 46, apparently drove her partner mad by dragging a 37-inch plasma TV into the main bedroom and spending the entire night on her PS3. Malcolm was forced onto the sofa in order to get any sleep.

The story of this Lincolnshire couple seems unbelievably messed up. The PS3 was bought for their ten-year-old son, who would be allowed to play until midnight each night. Once he’d finished, the mother would take over until five or six in the morning. Malcolm also believed that Carol somehow had time for an affair, and turned violent when he was ordered out of the house, and  told he’d never see his kids again.

He inflicted 20 wounds with two knives, and the attack was overheard by their son, who dialed 999. Palmer grabbed the phone off the boy and said: “I’m sorry. I think I killed her.”

Palmer’s defense lawyer is clinging to the gaming as a means of justifying his client’s attack, claiming that the “Genesis of the tragedy bizarrely lies with the purchase of a PlayStation.”

So, not only does playing videogames make you violent, it makes you a victim of violence too. Sounds like you all better grab a gun before someone gets you first.