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Martin Bentham and John Dunne

Snapchat ‘being used by killers to lure victims into lethal traps and plan attacks’

Social media is used to discuss homicides once they have taken place (PA)

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Snapchat is the “favoured” social media site of killers in London who are using online messages to lure victims into lethal traps and plan attacks, a City Hall study warned today.

It also discloses that social media is used to discuss homicides once they have taken place and that each killing costs police and the criminal justice system more than £800,000 to deal with, on top of the human suffering.

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