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The 42-year-old man who stabbed and killed his parents in Kolltveit in Sotra in June last year was sentenced to mandatory mental health care in a unanimous verdict in the Bergen District Court.
Per Arne Ormehaug (67) and Siri Helen Johannesen (66) were found dead at their home in Kolltveit in Sotra on June 27 last year.
When he was arrested, he first told police that his parents had gone out for a walk. Then he told me that he had killed them and that they were both in the garage next to the house.
When the case went to court in September, the man denied his criminal guilt.
The man had previously been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
The former owner, the man’s younger brother, has said that it is obvious that he must be taken in by force.
The little brother also reported Helse Bergen to the police last year. The man had been released from a psychiatric hospital just three days before the murder.
Fear of repetition
The verdict states that the court believes there may be a danger that the 42-year-old will commit similar acts in the future. Both experts on the case have deemed him psychotic.
‘The conclusion is therefore that the subject is considered psychotic in the forensic psychiatric sense at the time of the examination. It is presumed that the subject was psychotic at the time of the appealed actions ”, conclude the experts in the sentence.
The man has explained that it was a mercy killing.
He claimed that he received threats that his parents would be tortured for 10 years. He also told his brother this in the afternoon after the murders.
The 42-year-old has explained that he has heard rumors about such threats for many years. The man is said to have learned of the rumors on Monday that he was discharged. It is said that he explained that he does not fully understand where these threats are coming from, but that it is a criminal environment.
