A 45-year-old man is sentenced to forensic psychiatric care with special release testing for murdering his nine-year-old son in Södertälje at the beginning of January.
The man strangled his son to death. The Södertälje District Court writes in its judgment that the act was particularly ruthless and involved severe suffering for the boy.
The father is also ordered to pay 110,000 kronor in damages to the boy's mother, according to the district court's judgment.
The judgment states that the penalty value for the murder is life imprisonment. However, since a forensic psychiatric examination has shown that the man committed the crime "under the influence of a serious mental disorder", he will instead be referred to forensic psychiatric care.
"It is an enormous tragedy, and there is no doubt that the crime has a penalty value equivalent to life imprisonment. However, considering what has emerged about the defendant's mental state, the court has concluded that forensic psychiatric care is the correct sentence in this case," says Chief Judge Claes Söderqvist, according to a press release from the district court.
It was on January 8 that the boy was found severely injured in an apartment. He was taken to the hospital by ambulance helicopter, but his life could not be saved.
The father was found in the apartment and was arrested on the spot. He has confessed to the crime.
