Newspaper report linking stabbing of Leeds teacher to Dark Souls disputed

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A newspaper report linking the stabbing of a Leeds teacher to video game Dark Souls has been disputed.
Today the Daily Mail ran a report with a headline saying the 15-year-old accused of stabbing his teacher, 61-year-old Ann Maguire, to death was "obsessed with online video game where lone cursed character travels through fantasy world killing others". That video game, the report said, was From Software's Dark Souls.
In the second paragraph of the report, the Daily Mail describes the schoolboy as "a depressed loner who spent long periods online playing ultra-violent video games".
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