The man was sentenced to forensic psychiatric care in 2018 after stabbing a student of the same age at a school in Enskede, but in December last year he escaped from the forensic psychiatric staff in connection with a walk.

During the time on the run, he is said to have committed several crimes.

This applies partly to the stabbing of a man in the age of 45 at an ATM in Rissne in Sundbyberg on 2 January this year, partly to a robbery at the same ATM a few days earlier, and an attempted robbery at another ATM two days after the knife attack.

Regarding the knife attack, the man has said that he stabbed the man, but that the intention was not to kill him.

According to the indictment, the victim was murdered by repeated stabbings to the chest, neck and head.

High risk

At the time of the escape in December, the man was judged to continue to suffer from a serious mental disorder and the risk of relapse into serious crime was considered high if the care were to cease.

After he was re-arrested, a new forensic psychiatric examination was conducted.

Even then, it was concluded that he suffered from a serious mental disorder both at the time of the act and at the time of the examination.

But the man appealed the statement to the Judicial Council, an independent body affiliated with the National Board of Health and Welfare, which now makes a completely different assessment.

According to the statement, he does not suffer from a serious mental disorder either now or at the time of the knife attack.

There are thus no conditions for handing him over to forensic psychiatric care and there is no prison ban.

Not sick

The man himself shares the Judicial Council's view, says his defender Martin Persson.

- His opinion is that he does not suffer from a serious mental disorder.

The main trial ended last week and Martin Persson demanded that his client be sentenced to "a shorter prison sentence" given his young age.

- I have demanded that he not be convicted of murder because he has not had any intent.

According to Martin Persson, the main rule is that an opinion from the Judicial Council outweighs that from a forensic psychiatric examination.

- But it is the court that decides in the end, he says.

Want to see care

Prosecutor Maria Hävermark, despite the statement, demanded in the first instance that the man should again be sentenced to forensic psychiatric care.

- I argued that you should look at it again.

It has to do with the fact that he served a previous sentence that he escaped from, and also the RPU which says that he suffered from a serious mental disorder.

If the court instead chooses a prison sentence, she demands 14 years in prison for murder.

Solna District Court announces its verdict on 25 May.

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