This means that the man is sentenced to maintain compulsory mental health care. Espen Andersen Bråthen, who was sentenced to compulsory mental health care after killing five people in Kongsberg in 2021, applied for release in Buskerud district court earlier this week. He has lived in a psychiatric institution since the verdict. In the district court, he argued that he is healthy. – I am healthy and would like to be free now, Bråthen said in court. On Thursday, the judgment came from the district court, which concludes that the 40-ring must still be treated in psychiatry. Two years and three months ago, the police received a report that a man was shooting with a bow and arrow at a grocery store in Kongsberg. Espen Andersen Bråthen (40) killed four women and one man during the dramatic Wednesday evening. All were accidental victims. On 24 June 2022, he was sentenced to compulsory mental health care. These are the Kongsberg murders. On 13 October 2021, five people were killed and three injured when Espen Andersen Bråthen attacked random people with a knife and a bow and arrow in Kongsberg. Bråthen started the attacks in Coop Extra where he shot at employees, customers and the police with a bow and arrow. He got out before the police managed to arrest him, and then went to Hyttegata where he entered the homes of the residents and killed those he met with a knife. Bråthen was arrested 37 minutes after the first reports about the incident came. Three experts concluded that Bråthen had a strongly deviant state of mind on the evening when he carried out the attack. Bråthen has a long history of mental illness. In 2007, he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, where psychosis is a prominent feature. The forensic psychiatrists who have assessed Bråthen believe that he still has the diagnosis, and that it is chronic. In April 2022, Bråthen was charged with five murders, eleven attempted murders, 13 cases of serious threats and one case of attempted bodily harm. He was also charged with several other matters, including throwing a knife at three police officers. Bråthen pleaded guilty to the entire charge when the case started in Buskerud District Court in Hokksund. He explained that the aim of the attack was to kill as many people as possible so that he himself would be reborn. Both the prosecution and the defense filed a claim that Bråthen must be sentenced to transfer to compulsory mental health care, which also happened when the verdict was handed down on 24 June 2022. Source: NTB
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