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Swedish man sentenced to life in Belgium for 2018 murder

A 27-year-old Swedish citizen has been sentenced to prison in Belgium for an eight-year-old murder, reports Norwegian TV 2. The man has also been sentenced in Norway for another murder - but in that case to forensic psychiatric care.

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In 2018 the then-20-year-old Swede first attacked a 24-year-old Norwegian man in an apartment in Oslo and killed him with a knife. The Swede confessed to the crime when he was arrested in France a week later.

At that time, he had also killed a 58-year-old Belgian woman in her own home, inflicting 40 stab wounds.

The Oslo District Court sentenced him to forensic psychiatric care in 2020, on the grounds that he suffered from a mental disorder at the time. However, the court in Belgium now finds that the man simulated mental illness and has sentenced him to life imprisonment.

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AuthorTT News AgencyEnglish edition by Sweden Herald, adapted for our readers
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