A 17-year-old vintage boy who was tortured and buried in a shallow grave reportedly met the three teens accused of his homicide on a medieval-themed video game. Justin Tsang’s frame was found at a lookout at Wentworth Falls in the Blue Mountains on March 19 after he went lacking in Canada Bay four days earlier. Alleged ring chief Yigit Erdogan, 19, and 18-12 months-olds Chris Hopkinson and Joel Robertson confronted Burwood Local Court on Thursday charged with the suspected kidnapping and murder of Mr. Tsang. Police believe the four young adults all performed the online game Mount and Blade: Warband, in which gamers combat to seize cities and castles.

Mr. Tsang was allegedly tortured for hours at home in Sydney’s inner-west over an assets dispute concerning $500 earlier than being stabbed to demise. Detectives allege Justin pleaded for his lifestyle as he was tortured before he became killed. The fatal blow turned into made to Justin’s head with a knife, Burwood Local Court heard.
Homicide squad commander Detective Superintendent Scott Cook says the sufferer changed into assault for hours. There was some notion he turned into pleading for his existence. It’s miserable,’ he informed journalists on Thursday. The detective said the purpose seemed to be associated with a property dispute.

Court files advise Justin was kidnapped and assaulted to obtain $500 coins. ‘It very concerning in a sense that if the underlying reason is a property dispute, how can that increase to torture,’ Det Supt Cook stated. It truly is demanding. Det Supt Cook said it turned into believed Erdogan and Justin had met online even as playing the medieval-themed video game Mount and Blade: Warband. We recognize that the folks on that premises have been worried about gaming. In reality, we are pretty assured that is how they all met each different,’ he stated. Detectives on Wednesday searched a Burwood Heights house and arrested four men – Hopkinson and Robertson.

Two different men had been launched pending similar inquiries. Erdogan was arrested in Bankstown on Wednesday night and charged. Police allege he organized and coordinated the killing. They say Erdogan – who became recognized to Justin – picked him up from a Drummoyne residence on March 11 in a BMW sedan. It’s understood he changed into the handiest one from the trio who knew Justin. He turned into taking to the Burwood Heights house in which the other men lived, held against his will, and stabbed to loss of life, it’s alleged.

His body was buried in a shallow grave near Jamison Lookout at Wentworth Falls. Hopkinson stood to defend with a wrench in the course of the murder, the Burwood court heard. Hopkinson’s attorney, Ken Buckman, argued his patron changed into afraid and intimidated using Erdogan, who’d allegedly exceeded him the wrench. He changed into a terrified young guy,’ Mr. Buckman said.