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The 47-year-old man has been sentenced to mandatory mental health care for the third time. The case reached the Sør-Trøndelag District Court last week.
In the court’s opinion, there is an imminent danger that the man will commit new serious criminal acts again. A mandatory mental health care sentence is necessary to protect the life and health of others, according to the court.
Tore Angen, defender of the 47-year-old man, says that when the court has assumed that the defendant was behind the murder of the deceased, it is a correct result.
The defender will now read the full verdict, but does not think it is a duck.
I didn’t get the message
The day after the murder in Lademoen last year, NRK was able to report that the target was under mandatory treatment in Trondheim. This after a ruling in Stavanger District Court in 2017.
NRK has received confirmation that the Trøndelag police and prosecutor were never informed that the man had moved from Stavanger to Trondheim.
– The system is such that responsibility is not transferred to the prosecutor in the area where the convicted person is, explains prosecutor Jarle Wikdahl.
He was a prosecutor in the murder case in Trondheim.
Located alone in a busy area
The responsibility of controlling the execution of a sentence of compulsory treatment rests with the Public Ministry of the area where he is sentenced. In this case Rogaland.
After three months in a psychiatric clinic in Stavanger, the convict was transferred to the psychiatric ward of Trondheim and St. Olav Hospital in Østmarka in March 2017.
LADEMOEN: The crime techs have first-hand experience at the Lademoen scene in Trondheim.
Photo: Morten Andersen / NRK
That same fall, therapists thought the man could stop taking antipsychotic medications. They also believed that he could gradually live on his own. He was visited in the municipal department a couple of times a week by health personnel for drug control.
But neither the police nor the public prosecutor in Trøndelag knew that there was a psychotic drug addict, almost blind, alone in a busy area of Trondheim. Or that he was sentenced to compulsory treatment.
You have followed the guidelines
The man had reported that he moved to Trondheim just before the trial in Stavanger in January 2017.
It is the coordination unit of the Oslo University Hospital that has the national responsibility for health and justice cooperating in the implementation of the sentences on compulsory medical care.
The guidelines state who should be informed if a patient moves:
If the convicted person is transferred between health trusts and with him from the assignment area from one office to another, the receiving prosecutor’s office and the police district will be notified.
But in this case, the man was already registered in Trondheim due to the relocation notice.
Therefore, it was not a transfer that required reporting to the Trøndelag police and prosecutor’s office.
ÅSTADEN: Cathrine Sand was killed with a knife in the apartment of the man who was under mandatory mental health care.
Photo: Police
I got a ride from the police
Two months before the murder, the 47-year-old crashed with a high blood alcohol level in Trondheim.
State Prosecutor Folke Åmlid in Rogaland says he was informed about driving under the influence of alcohol.
The way to “frame him” was to increase the drug tests two to three times a week.
The man was discharged from the hospital after driving under the influence of alcohol. During the trial, her sister told how she got home.
He first got hooked on an electric bike. He was wearing hospital clothes and was injured in the foot. Some distance from Lademoen’s apartment, a police patrol passed. They offered the man to drive him home. He agreed with this.
The sister said in court that she had contacted the police while her brother was in the hospital. She asked them to help him get the right help.
He said he was going to kill Cathrine
He also said that his brother on the phone told him that he was going to kill Cathrine Sand because she was the one driving the car. Therefore, she was at fault that one of the dogs in the car had to die after the accident, she said.
Police found the man trapped behind the wheel. There is no indication that there are other people on the road.
During the trial, several neighbors said they reacted to the fact that neither the defendant nor the victim received help in the time leading up to the murder.
ÅSTADEN: The police are investigating the apartment where the woman was found.
Photo: Morten Andersen / NRK
– Should consider changes
The reports from the St. Olav Hospital doctors were sent to the Rogaland prosecutor.
Here the man was said to have moved to Trondheim.
– When the responsibility for health care and enforcement of incarceration rests with two different districts, it is difficult to capture. Information flow should be improved, says prosecutor Wikdahl in Trøndelag.
For example, the Attorney General has no plans to change the prosecution’s responsibility for tracking convicts under duress. First State Attorney Katharina Rise reports to NRK.
As the Norwegian Board of Health Supervision is investigating the case, St. Olav Hospital and the Municipality of Trondheim have previously informed NRK that they will not comment on the treatment of the accused.
