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Canada investigating how Skyrim username mixup sent innocent man to prison for 18 months

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Canada investigating how Skyrim username mixup sent innocent man to prison for 18 months

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Global News@lemmy.zipEnglish · 8 days ago

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Canada investigating how Skyrim username mixup sent innocent man to prison for 18 months - Dexerto

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Canadian officials are investigating how an innocent man spent 18 months in prison after police missed an underscore in his Skyrim username.

Canadian officials are investigating how an innocent man spent 18 months in prison after police missed an underscore in his Skyrim username.

Archived version: https://archive.is/20260807200424/https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/canada-investigating-how-skyrim-username-mixup-sent-innocent-man-to-prison-for-18-months-3396037/

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That was batshit crazy. His username was a universal phrase from the game. But they had possession of his device.

They weren’t incompetent, they just didn’t want to continue looking for a perp

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