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An innocent Canadian wrongly served 18 months in prison after Wisconsin police misspelled his Skyrim-inspired internet username.
Brandon Klayme from Halifax, Nova Scotia, was arrested in 2020 on charges of child luring and possession of child sex abuse imagery, after his username on chat app Kik was tracked down by U.S. cops.
But police made an error when identifying that Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim username, Klayme’s lawyers have now proven, finally securing their client’s innocence six years later — and long after he served 18 months behind bars for crimes that someone else committed.
The case’s 12-year-old victim identified the man talking to them on Kik as operating under the username “fus__ro_dah,” a reference to Skyrim’s infamous dragon language shout. Klayme, meanwhile, used the username “fus_ro_dah,” a difference of one underscore.
In an affidavit submitted for his appeal seen by CBC News, Klayme said this difference had been “a subtle mistake that changed the course of my life.”
“We noticed the problem when we were working on the appeal arguments this spring,” Klayme’s defence lawyer Zeb Brown told CBC News. “We were trying to figure out why the digital forensic evidence pointed at him given his denial of
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