A Danish man who killed 5 individuals and injured 4 others with knives and a bow and arrow in Norway in October final 12 months has been convicted and located responsible of homicide and tried homicide.
The Buskerud District Court docket on Friday sentenced the 38-year-old Espen Andersen Bråthen to obligatory psychological well being care.
Three forensic psychiatric consultants who assessed Andersen Bråthen had concluded that he had suffered continual paranoid schizophrenia since 2007 and was mentally sick on the time of the assault.
"The court docket, due to this fact, finds that the defendant can't be held criminally chargeable for any of the costs," the court docket stated.
Andersen Bråthen was carrying 62 arrows and 4 knives on the time of the assault in Kongsberg on October 13 final 12 months.
He was arrested greater than half an hour after he began firing arrows inside a grocery retailer and attacking strangers inside their houses.
The Danish man had then attacked individuals with knives after his bow broke, the court docket heard, killing 4 girls and one man, aged between 52 and 78.
The three-judge court docket stated the defendant had defined that "he had determined to kill individuals to be able to obtain rebirth".
"He stated he thought he was going to go blind (and) due to this fact believed that it was pressing to kill.”
Andersen Bråthen had pleaded responsible to 5 counts of homicide and 11 counts of tried homicide in the beginning of his trial. He was additionally ordered to pay compensation to the victims.
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