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The prosecutor wants to see Daniel Nyqvist convicted of two murder charges; his lawyer wants to kill him. Regardless of the classification, the outcome is likely to be forensic psychiatric care. Today is the third and probably last day of hearings in the district court on the double murder in Linköping in 2004.
Based on the main hearing in Linköping District Court on the double murder in 2004. In the foreground, the defendant Daniel Nyqvist and his defender Johan Ritzer. On the left is attorney Elisabeth Massi Fritz, who represents the family of the murdered child.
Daniel Nyqvist has admitted that he unprovokedly attacked and killed two persons unknown to him in Linköping on October 19, 2004.
His victims, eight-year-old Mohamad who was on his way to school and Anna-Lena, a 56-year-old language teacher, who first became a witness and then a victim, were beaten with violent force and many times by Nyqvist, 21 years old. , who according to his own statement. that morning for the sole purpose of killing two people.
According to him, he did it to “have peace of mind”, to calm his obsessive thoughts about the murder, as he said during the second day of hearings in Linköping District Court last week.
– To have my peace of mind. To get rid of the thoughts, to be able to sleep, Nyqvist said.
The National Board of Forensic Medicine (RMV) said in a statement before the main hearing that he suffers from a serious mental disorder and that he also suffered from it at the time of the murders. His lawyer Johan Ritzer said in district court that because of this there may be room to sentence Nyqvist to murder rather than murder, as required by prosecutor Britt-Louise Viklund.
The main hearing in Linköping District Court is expected to end today (Monday). But before the allegations by prosecutors, plaintiff’s assistants, and a lawyer are stopped, three people who know the alleged double killer must be heard. They are two childhood friends and Nyqvist’s brother.
Regardless of whether the district court in a conviction classifies the act as murder or manslaughter, there is no scope for any sanction other than forensic psychiatric care. This is because the act was committed in 2004, four years before a change in the law, which means that the penalty can be imprisonment even if there is a mental disorder.
The double murder in Linköping
It is shortly before eight in the morning on October 19, 2004, and the street lights on Åsgatan in Linköping have just gone out when an eight-year-old boy walks home on his way to school.
Suddenly he is stabbed in the back, with great force, many times. Die there, on the ground.
A 56-year-old woman who goes to work is also attacked, violently and with many blows. Then the perpetrator drops the knife and leaves.
At a newsstand in Djurgårdsgatan, outside Ica, his bloody hat and bloody fingerprints are found.
On June 9, 2020, a 37-year-old man was arrested in Linköping for the murder, after police in a pilot study hired genealogists and searched genealogy databases using traces of the man’s DNA. The man later admits that he murdered the child and the woman.
The investigation is the second largest in Sweden after Palme’s investigation.
