16-yr-old killer was influenced by violent films

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal">THANE: Vijay Sharma, the 16-year-old Thane schoolboy who stabbed his mother to death on May 18, said he would have killed the others in the house too but had been unnerved by the sight of blood spouting out of his mother''s wounds.<br /><br />Inspector Ravindra Javkar, of the Wagle Estate police station, said the first thing that the teenaged boy did after fleeing the house was to watch a show of the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Main Hoon Na</span> at Eros cinema near Churchgate station.<br /><br />After that, the boy spent his time loitering around the Colaba and Churchgate areas, sleeping at bus stops at night.<br /><br />He blew up the Rs 3,000 that he had stolen from his house in the last ten days on films and food.<br /><br />Vijay was picked up by the railway police on Friday at Churchgate station after he was found loitering without a ticket on the platform.Inspector Javkar said Vijay had been highly influenced by the violent scenes in the Mahesh Manjrekar film <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Vaastav</span>, in which Sunjay Dutt plays a gangster. "He had planned to kill his grandparents with a broken glass bottle and dispose of the dead bodies of his family members by burning them," Javkar said.<br /><br />Vijay will be produced before the juvenile justice court on Saturday, according to police sources.</div> </div>