A British gamer could only watch helplessly as a woman he was playing games online with was brutally murdered by a complete stranger who broke into her home.
The unnamed man was at the end of a ten-hour gaming session with a 32-year-old woman in Finland when he heard her window being smashed in with a brick.
The gamer later told police that the intruder spoke to her in Finnish before she started screaming.
When the Brit lost contact with her, he sent an urgent email to police in Puumala, the southeastern Finnish town she was based at 5am on April 23.
The killer, a ‘complete stranger’ from Imatra, then drove an hour north to a barn, sat inside and set it on fire.
According to reports, locals were met with the horrifying image of the burning man walking out of the barn with his arms open wide before collapsing.
The only suspect in the killing died later in hospital.
The police alerted by the gamer’s email found the body of the victim in her home, the next day.
Murder detectives continued to investigate after the suspect’s death, but were able to rule out the possibility of other people being involved in the killing.
The case has now been closed.
It came as a streamer known for taking part in extreme online challenges was found dead.
Raphael Graven, also known as Jean Pormanove or JP, died following a live broadcast at his home in Contes, a village north of Nice, on Monday.
The 46-year-old reportedly endured ’10 days and nights of torture’ including ‘extreme’ physical violence and sleep deprivation beforehand.
People watching his final stream are said to have raised the alarm after seeing him lying motionless on a mattress and not responding to any of their messages.
He had more than a million social media followers and was particularly popular on Kick, which is seen as having less stringent user terms than those of its rival, the better-known Twitch streaming service.
