A BRIT gamer watched in horror as his online friend was stabbed to death by a stranger in her home in Finland, according to police.

The unidentified man had been playing online with his friend, a 32-year-old Finnish woman, for about ten hours when he heard a window being smashed in.

The helpless Brit desperately asked the woman if she had locked her door - and later heard the murderer speak to the victim in Finnish, he told police.

Neighbours in the southeastern Finnish town of Puumala reported hearing the woman scream, according to police docs seen by local media.

The Brit was powerless to intervene in the horror 1,000 miles away - but sent an email to the town's police at 5am local time on April 23.

Officers found the woman dead in her living room the next day and launched and inves

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