Prosecutors claims man had \u201cAgent 47 Hitman fantasy\u201d amid murder trial in the UK IO InteractiveA man in the UK is on trial for the alleged murder of his housemate which prosecutors claim may have been motivated by a \u201cbizarre fantasy\u201d of being Agent 47 from the Hitman games. A murder was recently committed in Botley, Oxfordshire in the UK with Eugene Coman now accused of killing his flatmate. However, it doesn\u2019t appear to have been just an ordinary murder, as prosecutors claim the man was either acting out an \u201cAgent 47 Hitman Fantasy\u201d or was driven by \u201cgood old fashioned sexual jealousy.\u201d Coman is accused of stabbing his flatmate, Leonid Laboshin, in the kitchen of their shared home. He confessed to committing the crime, but claimed he was not doing it in his right mind. Admitting manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. As reported by the Oxford Mail, a murder trial opened at the Oxford Crown Court on February 28, with prosecutor Charles Ward-Jackson presiding over the case. He said, \u201cthe prosecution says there are really two competing motives for the killing. \u201cOne is what one might call good old fashioned sexual jealousy; the cause of many killings since Helen of Troy and no doubt before that.\u201d The victim, Laboshin, had allegedly been courting another housemate of theirs who he was interested in. Or a second possible motivation, according to the prosecutor, was Coman\u2019s \u201cbizarre fantasy\u201d around Agent 47, the titular character of the Hitman franchise. The jury was told that Coman had made a number of internet searches about the ruthless assassin prior to the event. The day before the alleged murder, he reportedly convinced his brother to shave his hair, seemingly as to resemble Agent 47. When the murder was committed on October 17 2022, he was wearing a black suit, white shirt, and tie when he was arrested. This happens to be the trademark costume for the contract killer. The prosecutor described it as a \u201crather unusual outfit for killing.\u201d Mr. Ward-Jackson continued, \u201cThere is evidence on the defendant\u2019s computer that he admired and sought to emulate this rather unsuitable role model.\u201d This is not Coman\u2019s first instance of violence which the jury was told of. A year and a half before the killing, he had allegedly pistol-whipped a property manager who was chasing him for unpaid rent. Coman denies the murder charge, and the trial continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Prosecutors claims man had \u201cAgent 47 Hitman fantasy\u201d amid murder trial in the UK IO InteractiveA man in the UK is on trial for the alleged murder of his housemate which prosecutors claim may have been motivated by a \u201cbizarre fantasy\u201d of being Agent 47 from the Hitman games. A murder was recently committed in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}