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Tintin’s father denies killing his eight-year-old son.
At the same time, everything in the investigation indicates that the boy has been murdered.
Now an investigation shows that the detained man may suffer from a serious mental disorder and that he was on sick leave in the weeks before the murder due to sleep disorders.
The little boy in Luleå was called Tintin by his family and he was only eight years old.
On January 8 this year, he was found dead in the bathtub in his father’s apartment after the police were called to the scene.
The father had recently, after years of custody disputes over the boy, been granted visitation for a few hours every two weeks. But on this occasion he had not returned the boy in time and Tintin’s mother became worried.
In the apartment, the police found the boy dead and the man himself injured.
The murder suspect’s father denies the crime and has done so since he was arrested.
– He does not want to say anything about what happened that day, says District Attorney Lindha Strömberg.
Is there anything in the investigation that indicates that the boy was not killed, that it could be an accident?
– No.
Sold his car and sought care
In a section 7 investigation, a so-called small mental examination, carried out by the father, it appears that it can be suspected that the father suffers from a serious mental disorder, both at the time of the murder and at the time of the examination.
In the investigation, the father himself does not want to say anything about what happened on January 8, other than that he denies it. But he says that in recent years he has gone to A-kassa as it “is not possible to pursue a legal process for several years and work at the same time.”
He also says there that he had been on sick leave in the weeks leading up to the crime due to sleep problems. He is also said to have visited a health center three days before the murder, but why he then sought help is not apparent in the public documents.
On the day of the murder, he sold his car as he was behind on several payments.
The detained father states that he himself does not consider himself to have suffered from mental illness, but since his arrest he has been under compulsory care in forensic psychiatry and it is likely that a decision will be made that he will undergo a major forensic psychiatric investigation, a so-called RPU.
The boy himself was worried
The case of little Tintin and his death has created public opinion and a demand for a lex-Tintin so that more children do not die like him.
“No more children should have to die because our justice system fails them,” his family has demanded.
The man suspected of murder and Tintin’s mother separated the year after the son was born. Shortly thereafter, the custody battle began. At one point, the conflict escalated so that the police had to be called. Several reports of concern were also made about the father by, among other things, the boy’s school.
The mother states in court documents that the man did not want to cooperate. That he tried to manipulate the son against her, that he was suspicious and used the son as a means of power.
Even Tintin himself is said to have expressed concern about the visits with the father.
In the final custody hearing last December, the mother expressed concern that the father would try to take the son abroad and did not want any contact between them at all. However, the district court considered that a certain amount of contact was still the best for the son.
Charges will be filed on March 23.