The man currently lives in the community with open compulsory care, he goes to the health center and takes injections for his schizophrenia and has telephone contact with doctors.

He claims that he can manage on his own and no longer needs the control that open forensic psychiatric care entails.

But doctors have different opinions. As recently as the summer of 2022, the chief physician at the Forensic Psychiatric Clinic in Säter justified that the care must continue and be tightened up due to the man's propensity to violence, stress sensitivity and clear empathy disorder that poses risks of recidivism. "The child is the greatest protective factor," reads the ruling, referring to the man having sole custody of his five-year-old son.

"Mental disorder under control"

After the verdict, the man moved and responsibility for care was moved to Kristinehamn. The Chief Medical Officer takes a completely different view of this. Six months after colleagues' statement about a possible deterioration where the risk of relapse into serious crime was assessed as "medium", the doctor in Kristinehamn states that the risk is now "low" and that "the mental disorder is completely under control".

The man currently lives without any support measures or efforts from social services, he told the court when he tried to be fully discharged.

There is no transparency

How the social services reason can no one see, because it is confidentiality. Not even the child's mother is told, as he has sole custody.

"When I lived there, we had input from social services, someone who kept an eye on the child, but when he is one of his personalities, he considers him healthy and does not need help," she says.

Hear in the clip what the mother says about how the 5-year-old is doing today

Forensic psyche works for the patient

Forensic psychiatry's doctors do not want to comment due to confidentiality, but Säter writes in a letter response to SVT Nyheter that "from forensic psychiatry, no special efforts are made as we should work for the patient and not for the whole family."

– Our routine is to always have an outreach meeting with social services when patients are discharged to outpatient care, says operations manager Anders Gravé.

The forensic psychiatry in Kristinehamn also says that it is routine to have meetings with social services, and otherwise refers to confidentiality.