The Sunday Express have attempted to make a tenuous link between the violence at this week's London student protests and Grand Theft Auto.

UK tabloid newspaper The Sunday Express today ran with the headline 'SCORE POINTS IF YOU INJURE POLICE', following reports that students from Leeds University and Leeds Metropolitan University awarded themselves 'points' for attacking police officers at the student demonstration in London earlier this week.

Sunday Express reporters David Jarvis and Heather Spurr made an unfounded assumption within the article that the 'game', thought to have been initiated by demonstrators affiliated with the anti-establishment group Leeds Class War, "resembles Grand Theft Auto".

The newspaper claimed that the players also "win points for committing crimes and acts of brutality" in Grand Theft Auto, and that Scotland Yard and the National Union of Students are currently investigating the riots and the damage caused to the Conservative Party headquarters at Millbank Tower.

Grand Theft Auto, Rockstar Games, and videogames in general have long been a scapegoat for many of society's problems, though it is quite unnerving to see such an important story linked to videogames without any sort of evidence backing it. Another moral panic, or cause for concern? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.