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The young man who is suspected of murdering two family members in Luleå earlier this year suffers from a serious mental disorder, according to a forensic psychiatric examination.
According to the forensic psychiatric report, the man suffered from a serious mental disorder both when the murders were committed and when the investigation was carried out.
The forensic examination, carried out by the Forensic Medicine Agency, follows on from a smaller so-called section seven examination which indicated that the man could be mentally ill.
It was in March that the police were alerted to a residential area in Luleå’s Svartöstaden district, where a young man and a woman were found dead. The suspect, a 19-year-old man, was arrested outside in connection with the scene. According to police and prosecutors, all three belong to the same family.
The suspect confessed to the murders in the initial interrogations. He has been in custody on probable cause on suspicion of two counts of murder since March 10.
“The case concerns a family of four who live at the scene of the crime. No outsider is suspected of a crime. A man and a woman in the family are deceased and a 19-year-old man is suspected of crime. The father in the family is a witness to parts of the course of events and himself a plaintiff for a grossly illegal threat,” District Attorney Åsa Valter has previously said in a press release.
According to the prosecutor, the victims were murdered with a sharp knife.
In the forensic psychiatric examination, the assessment is made that the man is in need of forensic psychiatric care.