Murder of a woman with a sword in Trondheim – the prosecutor wants custody – news Trøndelag – Local news, TV and radio

The man pleaded guilty to the murder when the trial began in Trøndelag District Court on Tuesday. Hit the woman four times in the head The defendant in his 20s and the murdered woman were acquaintances. They lived in the same block on Byåsen, the prosecutor stated in his introduction to the court on Tuesday. The woman was visiting the defendant when she was killed. According to the indictment, the man hit the woman four times in the head with a sword so that she died. The sword was in a case when the police took it away from the crime scene. Photo: Bjarte Johannesen / news After the murder, the accused put a duvet over the woman, who was lying on her stomach on the floor. The picture was shown in court. This is how she was found in the defendant’s apartment when the police arrived. The defendant stayed in the household for a while before he left. He was arrested shortly after. The murder took place in a municipal flat that the defendant owned. Registered in a “particularly high risk” project Five years before the murder, the young man was registered in a project with the police which includes persons who have a particularly high risk of committing violence. A couple of years later, the conclusion is that the man may end up killing. After the murder, the history of the defendant in the emergency department was reviewed by Trondheim municipality and St. Olav’s hospital. The conclusion was that no measures could have reduced the risk of serious violence. The defendant has had problems with functioning since he was a child, the prosecutor stated. The 24-year-old has not completed primary school. – He has been diagnosed with “mild mental retardation” in the medical sense, said the prosecutor. There are no signs that the defendant was insane or psychotic. Since 2018, the man has lived in a municipal flat and received help from the municipality. The defendant’s mother will testify in court. She has previously told the media that she notified the municipality several times that her son needed more help than he got. The prosecutor, state prosecutor Per Morten Schjetne Photo: Kari Sørbø / news The prosecutor wants custody The prosecutor said that the prosecution assumes that the defendant is sane. Then he can be sentenced to custody due to the risk of serious new violence. The defendant has been examined by forensic psychiatrists. They also follow the trial to see how the defendant presents himself here. If it turns out that the defendant is not responsible and thus cannot be sentenced to prison, it is a sentence of mental health care that is relevant. Elisabeth Karete Bjørkavåg Ravnå was found murdered in Trondheim on 17 April last year. Photo: Police Published 10.09.2024, at 09.43 Updated 10.09.2024, at 10.06



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