– I would never have managed to kill my parents if it were myself – NRK Vestland

Per Arne Ormehaug (67) and Siri Helen Johannesen (66) were found dead at their home in Kolltveit in Sotra on June 27 last year.

The three-day trial against the 42-year-old son will begin on Tuesday.

When he was arrested, he first told police that his parents had gone for a walk. Then he told me that he had killed them and that they were both in the garage next to the house.

In court, he denies criminal guilt.

State Attorney Benedicte Hordnes announced that a claim will be filed for mandatory mental health care for the 42-year-old man. The man had previously been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.

Discharge from the psychiatric hospital

An important aspect of the case is that the defendant was admitted to a psychiatric hospital a few days before the double murder.

The defendant had been discharged from the hospital and had moved in with his parents three days before the murder.

The Norwegian Board of Health has conducted an audit of Helse Bergen. They concluded that the health trust did not provide the man with adequate help.

Withdraw the riots

The couple died of several stab wounds to the body, according to the indictment.

State Attorney Benedicte Hordnes analyzed for the first time how the double murder was revealed. The accused called his brother shortly before 5:00 p.m. on June 27. She experienced the 42-year-old as psychotic over the phone.

When the brother did not contact his parents after the conversation, something unusual, he called AMK. Along with a police patrol, the ambulance undertook what they hoped would be a psychiatric assignment.

Instead, the 42-year-old confessed to killing his parents with a knife during the conversation with the police and pointed out where his parents were.

I thought someone was looking for family

In the middle of the first day of the trial, the accused was allowed to leave the courtroom for the remainder of the day. Defense attorney Fredrik Verling informed the judge that the defendant did not want to continue with the trial.

– It is not known if it will continue the last two days, Verling tells NRK.

The defendant also refused to sit on the witness stand today to give explanations. Instead, the defense attorney read a written note that the defendant had written:

– In June 2019, criminals had poisoned the fountain in my parents’ house. They said he owed them money and amphetamines. The whole town was looking for me and they also said that my parents would be tortured for ten years.

– These people are responsible for this. I love my parents and would never have managed to kill them if it were myself, Verling read from the note, where it also appears that the defendant believed he had been intoxicated by the drug he believes someone had in their drinking water prior to the double murder.

Murdered at night

The memorandum corresponds to a police interrogation that the defendant gave to the police when he was arrested on June 27, 2019.

Police believe the murder occurred on the night of June 27. During questioning, the defendant explains that he feared that someone would enter the house that night and kidnap “everyone who was there.”

The prosecutor played the interrogation of the 42-year-old, where it seems that he decided to kill his parents “out of mercy”, because he did not want his parents to be “tortured for ten years.”

– You explained to me that you had been thinking about this for a few days, Prosecutor Hordnes said in his introduction.

During questioning, the 42-year-old man explains that his parents were asleep. He stayed outside the house and called his mother’s phone, who had to get up to answer.

Then he attacked with a knife. Then the father also came. The accused explains that his mother left the house and ran after him.

In the courtyard outside the house, he stabbed them both, before placing them in the garage and covering them with a blanket.

He explained that he also threw water on the patio to draw blood several times during the night.