Right on the eve of the court day, the question arose as to whether the experts had strong doubts as to whether the defendant was also ill when the murder took place. – We have no doubts, answered psychiatrist Kjersti Anne Lyngstad. She and specialist in psychiatry, Synne Sørheim, were the main characters on day two of the new trial after the Vollen murder in 2014. Social worker Anna Kristin Gillebo Backlund (30) was killed when she was on night duty at the child welfare institution Små Enheter in Asker. Anna Kristin Gillebo Backlund (30) worked as an environmental worker at the child welfare institution. Photo: Private Anna Kristin Gillebo Backlund (30) worked as an environmental worker at the child welfare institution. Photo: Private Alone, she looked after a 15-year-old girl. Anna Kristin was strangled and stabbed a total of 21 times on the night of Tuesday 28 October 2014. When the case was before the court last time, the experts believed that the 15-year-old suffered from a personality disorder. That she was not psychotic and thus sane. The girl was sentenced to detention for nine years. At the time, she was the youngest ever to be sentenced to detention in this country. The judgment was confirmed in the Supreme Court. After the case was before the court, the girl changed her legal gender and is now referred to as a man. The case has been reopened because new psychiatric experts carried out a new observation of the convicted person earlier this year. They believe the 23-year-old is suffering from psychosis. On Thursday, the two new experts, Kjersti Anne Lyngstad and Synne Sørheim, explained themselves in court. The two specialists in psychiatry, Kjersti Anne Lyngstad and Synne Sørheim, have made the new assessment of the 23-year-old. Photo: Heiko Junge / NTB Voices in the head On Thursday, the court heard a thorough review of the experts’ work with the accused and how they have arrived at the new conclusion. – Our case is about a balance between schizophrenia and personality disorder, explained Sørheim. Among other things, the experts have gone through all available records about the 23-year-old from the time he was 11. He was then in contact with BUP for the first time. They have also read the previous forensic psychiatric statements, spoken to the defendant’s father, the therapist at Dikemark and, not least, observed the defendant. Talked to him. From the age of 11, he has, among other things, heard voices in his head. Thoughts that encouraged you to do stupid things, including killing someone. And that everything he thinks becomes known to others. He has felt watched. Filmed. The experts believe he has delusions and thought disorders. And that he must have been psychotic when the murder was committed. Their conclusion is that he suffers from chronic paranoid schizophrenia. According to the new experts, he has been misdiagnosed and mistreated ever since the age of 11 and thus also when the murder took place in 2014. This may mean that he has previously been wrongly sentenced to detention. That he is too ill to be punished. A colleague of Anna Kristin Gillebo Backlund was on duty sleeping in the same building and did not notice that the colleague was killed. Photo: Øyvind Bye Skille / NRKE A colleague of Anna Kristin Gillebo Backlund was on duty sleeping in the same building and did not notice that the colleague was killed killed. Photo: Øyvind Bye Skille / news Professional disagreement last and now When the case was before the court last time, there was professional disagreement about the defendant’s psychiatric diagnosis. The previous forensic psychiatric declarations established that the 15-year-old suffered from a personality disorder. That he was not psychotic and thus sane. However, those who treated him at Sandviken Hospital believed that he suffered from schizophrenia. A psychosis. Here he was treated for this for four years. When the case is now before the court, the situation has been turned upside down. Dikemark, who is now treating the man, believes he has a personality disorder, while the experts believe he suffers from schizophrenia. The new experts have no good explanation as to why previous experts in the case have come to a different conclusion. – We have tried to understand, said Sørheim. Allegation of compulsory mental health care Earlier this year, the time approached to assess whether the custodial sentence should be extended. Therefore, a new expert assessment was made of the convicted person. When the conclusion was clear, both the defendant’s defender Cecilie Nakstad and the prosecution asked for the case to be reopened. In June this year, the Re-admission Commission decided that the case should be reopened. State prosecutor Erik Førde (left) and lawyer Cecilie Nakstad talk with the two experts, psychiatrists Kjersti Anne Lyngstad (left) and Synne Sørheim in the Eidsivating Court of Appeal. Photo: Heiko Junge / NTB Before the case started in the Eidsivating Court of Appeal on Wednesday, both state attorney Erik Førde and the man’s defense have announced that they will submit a claim for compulsory mental health care. This happens on Friday.
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