Een Engelse Xbox 360 gamer kreeg de schik van zijn leven toen overvallers bij hem binnenstormde tijdens een potje Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 en geld en drugs eisde. De gamer zijn online maatje hoor deze overval live door zijn headset en belde de politie die Jay Georgiou wisten op te pakken en ondertussen mag deze acht jaar in gevangenis het spelletje bukken in de douche spelen.

Jay Georgiou, 19, and an accomplice burst in on the trio at their home in Eastbourne, East Sussex, on April 1, while one of them was playing Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 with a friend in Brighton.

Georgiou, who wore a crash helmet during the robbery, hit one of the men with his imitation handgun and the robbers both threatened to shoot and stab them if they did not give them money and drugs.

They then tied up their victims and made off from the flat in Tenterden Close with laptop, mobile phones and the X-Box with games, Sussex Police said.

But a friend of the victims, who lived 25 miles away in Brighton, had heard the attack via his gaming headset and called police, who got a description and arrested Georgiou a mile away in Milfoil Drive two hours later.

Detective constable Richard Holder said: "This was a terrifying incident for the victims who appear to have been targeted entirely by mistake.

"The robbers were brutal in their treatment of the friends but Georgiou even stopped during the incident to take a phone call from his probation officer as he had missed an appointment.

"We will continue to work to track down the other robber involved so that he too can face justice like Georgiou."