Skyrim Username Mix-Up Sends Innocent Man To Prison For 18 Months
An innocent man has served the full 18 months of his prison sentence after police made a typo during their child-luring investigation. While looking for a man going by the alias ‘fus__ro_dah’ on the messaging service Kik (a reference to the Unrelenting Force dragon shout from Skyrim), they requested records for the use...
An innocent man has served the full 18 months of his prison sentence after police made a typo during their child-luring investigation. While looking for a man going by the alias ‘fus__ro_dah’ on the messaging service Kik (a reference to the Unrelenting Force dragon shout from Skyrim), they requested records for the username ‘fus_ro_dah,’ missing a crucial underscore. Unfortunately, this one-character mistake led them to a Canadian man called Brandon Klayme.
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