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#OnThisDay October 6, 2003
Allan Menzies (age 22) stood and testified before the High Court of Edinburgh because of the murder of his best friend, Thomas McKendrick for disrespecting the fictional vampire character "Queen Akasha" from the movie "Queen of the Damned".
Menzies said: "To put it bluntly, after I had seen the tape so many times, I wanted to go out and murder people.'' (he had watched the film "Queen of the Damned" over a hundred times, literally). Menzies also said that Queen Akasha would visit him on a regular basis. He said: “If you don’t kill someone, you can’t become a vampire.”
On the night of December 11, 2002, Menzies brutally murdered his pal Thomas McKendrick in his kitchen. Menzies beat him over the head repeatedly with a hammer, stabbed him 42 times, drank some of the victims blood, and ate part of the skull, before burying the body in a shallow grave - all because McKendrick insulted Akasha (calling her a "black b****") while they were in his kitchen; he claimed that he could see Akasha standing in the kitchen with them at the time of the insult.
Menzies told the courts he was promised a reward of immortality in the next life if he killed McKendrick. Allan Menzies was sentenced to 18 years in prison but would take his own life November 15, 2004 (a year after his sentencing) by hanging himself in his cell. His body was discovered the next morning.