Swedish minister killer sentence overturned

[lostnfound]

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/FAD8EABD-2EF4-4E21-A282-5F50AF6394E5.htm

The life sentence of the killer of Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh has been overturned.
A Swedish high court ruled on Thursday that Lindh's killer, Mijailo Mijailovic, is mentally ill and needs treatment instead of jail.

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He has admitted to stabbing Lindh repeatedly with a knife in a downtown Stockholm department store in September but has denied intent to kill.

The brutal attack on Lindh, a 46-year-old mother of two widely tipped before her death as Sweden's next prime minister, evoked painful memories in Sweden of the 1986 assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme. That crime remains unsolved.

[Dover]

1. And THIS crime also remains unsolved........

It was a political 'hit'.

[lostnfound]

2. I suspect so, also..

I don't know who the culprits were, but the insane-lone-guy story always seems too convenient.

[smirkymonkey]

4. I agree, and I can't believe they

are letting this "lone gunman" off that easily.

What an outrage!

[lostnfound]

3. One shameless kick for those who missed it. nt