The life sentence of the killer of Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh has been overturned.
| Guess her life wasn't that important, huh? |
A Swedish high court ruled on Thursday that Lindh's killer, Mijailo Mijailovic, is mentally ill and needs treatment instead of jail.
| They couldn't treat him in jail, huh? |
The decision overturns a lower court's life sentence for murder. The high court's verdict is a victory for Mijailovic's defence lawyer, who appealed against the lower court's ruling and got a new team of psychiatrists to examine his client's state of mind after initial mental checks found him sane enough to go to jail. The second evaluation deemed Mijailovic mentally ill and recommended treatment at an institution instead of imprisonment. The first examination served as a basis for the lower court's 23 March verdict in favour of the prosecutor. |