Irishman knew killer through Warcraft

AN IRISHMAN has revealed how he was in online contact with the Norwegian mass-killer Anders Behring Breivik every day for the past four years.

Frank, who befriended Breivik through the online roleplaying game World of Warcraft, said killing was the aim of the game and that the skills Breivik used when playing seemed to have translated into his Oslo attack.

“He went about the game in a very cold, calm and collected manner, in the same way he went about the attacks. Like they weren’t even people, just a quest.”

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