The Vestre Innlandet district court thinks so. The court has now sentenced the 46-year-old man to transfer to compulsory mental health care. In practice, this means that he will receive treatment in a closed psychiatric institution. It was on the evening of 1 August 2022 that the police received a report of a stabbing in a residential complex in Otta in Sel municipality in Innlandet. A couple in their 80s were killed in their own home. The man called the police himself and told them what he had done. Admitted to Otta The convict has a long history of mental illness. Among other things, he was admitted to the Bredebygden psychiatric hospital, a now closed institution in Otta. The state administrator in Innlandet has investigated whether the Innlandet Hospital and Sel municipality provided proper health care to the man prior to the murders. The state administrator’s conclusion is that there has been no breach of health legislation and that the health care was provided “in line with good practice”. Agreement in court During the trial in Vestre Innlandet district court in Lillehammer in April, the forensic psychiatric experts concluded that the 46-year-old man undoubtedly needs long-term psychiatric treatment. – The risk of new, violent acts is very high, they said. The prosecutor in the trial, state prosecutor Torbjørn Klundseter, submitted a claim that the man be transferred to compulsory mental health care. – He has a very serious psychiatric illness, and is almost treatment-resistant, said Klundseter. The man’s defender, lawyer Anders Bjørnsen, asked for an acquittal for the murder, because the defendant has explained that it was not himself, but the illness, that caused him to carry out the murders. He also agrees that the 46-year-old needs mental health care under duress.
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Sentenced to compulsory mental health care after the double murder of Otta in Gudbrandsdalen – news Innlandet – Local news, TV and radio
