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Bring Me The Horizon’s Oliver Sykes: ‘Guy Nearly Kills Someone Posing as Me, Not Cool’

Bring Me The Horizon frontman Oliver Sykes has responded to Wednesday’s news of a UK man jailed for attempted murder after impersonating the vocalist to seduce a California woman he met on Facebook.

“Guy nearly kills someone posing as me, not cool,” Sykes initially commented on his Tumblr.

Sykes later issued the following statement:

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UK Man Impersonates BMTH’s Oliver Sykes, Jailed for Attempted Murder of California Woman

According to dailymail.co.uk, a Northampton, UK McDonald’s worker impersonated Bring Me The Horizon frontman Oliver Sykes to seduce a California woman he met on Facebook before slitting her throat and repeatedly stabbing her.

David Russell, 20, has been jailed for life after admitting to the kidnap and attempted murder of Maricar Benedicto, 19, who he met online in 2010.

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Oli Sykes Comments on Salt Lake City Show

Bring Me The Horizon frontman Oli Sykes has issued a statement in regards to last night’s show in Salt Lake City where the band was allegedly attacked onstage.

“Just to clear any rumours… Nothing happened last night apart from a bunch of soft lads stomped on a lil kids head 5 seconds into our set, so we stopped playing, had a bit of a banter with em telling em to do one, then some fatty gets on stage tries to hit me, in which he completely fails, misses and falls over, and then gets sparked out by someone In our touring party. The “crew” then responded by running around the venue, breaking a very young girls jaw and stamping on her, and injuring a few more of our young fans. Proper hard init.”