The police responded with large resources to a serious episode of violence at Vestkanten Storsenter on Friday 4 March last year. Ahead, a man had followed his father and his wife around the mall. When he met them in the car park, he stabbed his father in the neck, head and body. The father died shortly after. When the trial against the son started in Hordaland district court, he pleaded guilty to the murder. Now he has been sentenced to compulsory mental health care, his defender, Marius Wesenberg, told news. – A stricter regime is necessary – This is no surprise. The verdict is in line with what we asked for. I have not been able to discuss the sentence with him, but I expect that he is relieved to have finished the case, he says. The man has also been found guilty of bodily harm and using a knife against the stepmother, to which he pleaded not guilty in court. He has also been sentenced to pay reparation compensation to the survivors of a total of NOK 129,000. The result is also the same as the prosecutor, State Attorney Eirik Stolt-Nielsen, requested. – The big headline is that this is necessary for the sake of social protection. He has been under duress before, but a tighter regime around him is necessary. Public prosecutor Eirik Stolt-Nielsen believes that a tighter regime is necessary around the man who has been convicted of killing his father at Vestkanten Storsenter. Photo: Synne Lykkebø Hafsaas / news Judgment on transfer to compulsory mental health care When someone is sentenced to compulsory mental health care, the mental health care has a duty to take over responsibility for the convicted person. It is a condition that the perpetrator was insane at the time of the act, that there is a risk of repetition and that the reaction must be considered necessary to protect society. The court or the prosecuting authority has no influence on which treatment is to be used. They are only involved in questions about the establishment, termination and extension of the reaction. Source: Directorate of Health Defendant: – Does not have the capacity to blame During the trial it emerged that the man has a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia. The man’s defender, lawyer Marius Wesenberg, believes that he cannot be punished. – The diagnosis probably played a decisive role in his committing this murder. He cannot be punished, because he does not have the capacity to blame, he says. He has been forcibly hospitalized several times since 2015. In the time before the murder, he went to Turkey to escape forced treatment. At the same time, he cut out all medications. – I put on between 40 and 50 kilos in a few months, even though I was physically active, the man said in court. Just days before the murder, he was with his GP in Voss, who did not notice any paranoid or psychotic symptoms. The state administrator has previously concluded that the man did not receive proper health care in the months before the murder. The man’s defender, lawyer Marius Wesenberg, believes that the client’s diagnosis had a decisive effect on him committing the murder of his father. Photo: Synne Lykkebø Hafsaas / news Called the friend “son of a whore” The direct reason for the murder is a disagreement between father and son. In court, the now convicted man told about a friend, a kind of guide, with whom he had had several spiritual experiences. The father is said to have been worried about the relationship, and feared that the friend was taking advantage of him. During the conversation, the father is said to have called his friend “son of a whore”. The now convicted man said that he did not function after the conversation. He didn’t know how he could face his friend after his father said something like that. Then he decided to kill his father. A thought he admitted to having thought several times throughout his life. The man killed his father in the car park at the Vestkanten shopping centre. He must have been very ill in the time before the murder. Photo: Benajmin Dyrdal / news It was a coincidence that the murder happened at the shopping center. He bought the murder weapon at Biltema in Voss, before he went to Bergen. Prior to the murder, he spent the night in the car in an open car park at his father’s flat. Before the murder, he rang the doorbell of his father and wife three times, but no one answered. That was why he drove after them to the mall. He denied in court that he wanted the murder to take place in a public place.
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Man (35) sentenced to compulsory mental health care after the Vestkanten murder – news Vestland
