Suspect in a murder case was just released from prison
A man in his late 30s was taken into police custody yesterday due to an investigation into the death of his mother in an apartment building in Breiðholt in Reykjavík on Wednesday night. CPR efforts were immediately started, but they were unsuccessful and the woman was pronounced dead.
The case is in its initial stages of investigation.
According to our sources the man had just been released from prison after serving a sentence for violence against his mother, who was in her 60s.
The man was released from prison in September, but he was found legally responsible.
Put into security guarding in 2006
The man was charged in 2006 with attempted murder after stabbing his father in the back. He was found not guilty, but it is stated in the judgment of the Reykjavík District Court that at the time of the act he was completely unable to control his actions. The man was subjected to security guarding at an appropriate institution.
In the District Court's decision, it is said that the charge was for attempted murder, or at least for aggravated assault. The accused confessed to having stabbed his father in the back with a knife after getting into an argument and a fight with him.
Confessed to stabbing his father
According to the doctor's certificate, the knife almost hit the father's lung. The doctor said that the father's injuries were not life-threatening, although attacks with egg weapons on the torso can always be dangerous. The accused confessed to having stabbed his father in the back with a knife after getting into an argument and a fight with him.
The defendant himself testified in court that he had become furious with his father and shouted at him that he should kill him. He said he ran into the kitchen and tried to stab his father in the stomach with the knife, but his father turned around and the knife landed in his back. However, his father testified in court that when he noticed that the accused was planning to use a knife, he ran away from the accused and was then stabbed in the back.
The verdict referred to the psychiatrist's testimony and the man's long-term serious mental illness, as well as his addiction problem. He was ordered to pay his father 400,000 in damages, but the judgment states that the attack was brutal and unprovoked and that the victim survived by chance.