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School attendance officer Lorraine said: "Stuart never gave us any reason to think he was violent at all. He was a very normal boy—quiet and reserved. I used to call him ‘my little professor'.
"I knew he was playing the video games but we didn't really know what went on in them, how brutal and graphic they were."
Her words will resonate with anxious parents all over Britain. For the most chilling fact about Harling—who was grooming himself as a serial killer—is how ORDINARY he was.
The mild-mannered schoolboy gained 10 good GCSEs, excelled at maths, led a scout troop and had a bright future.
But every night he would retreat into his darkened bedroom at home in Rainham, Essex, and enter a grisly virtual world that revelled in sadism, ritual blood-letting and death. Just like millions of other youngsters.
