the COURT IN LYNGBY, denmark (Ekstra Bladet): A shaky video in which a 19-year-old couple being assaulted at a Circle K gas station in Birkerød by a øksemand, has just been shown in court in Lyngby, where a 30-year-old mentally ill man is accused of the attempted murder of the young couple.
He acknowledges that he knocked the pair down with the ax, but explains in court that he did it to get hold of the couple’s car. He was psychotic and heard voices and would have the car, so he could escape from ’the voices’.
But the 19-year-old man would not hand over the car keys,and therefore, the 30-year-old to the attack on him with the axe, explaining the 30-year-old.
Video surveillance from the gas station shows, that he first struck the 19-year-old woman down with øksehug in the head inside the store.
The 19-year-old man tried to defend her, and followed after the axeman out of the store. Beside the couple’s car went off the 30-year-old so loose on the 19-year-old man, who received lacerations in the head and on the back.
The 19-year-old woman was the worst injured, with a gaping gash on seven centimeters in the back of the head, a gash in the skull and lacerations on the neck and the back.
The 30-year-old denies that he would beat the pair to death, but acknowledge themselves guilty of serious violence.
– I would like to say sorry to them. I hope they understand that I was deeply psychotic. I feel terrible with it. It was not something I had planned to do against them, says the 30-year-old in court.
Retslægerne thinks that he is paranoid schizophrenic, and during the trial is required he is sentenced to placement in a psychiatric department.
Axe-the attack, which happened 17. February last year, led to a two day long manhunt on the island of Zealand. The 30-year-old was arrested on a pornoklub in Istedgade, after he earlier in the day had robbed Danske Bank in Ringsted.
The 30-year-old was on probation for 2. February from a sentence of three years in prison for bank robbery. After release, he was constantly armed with a hammer, or a knife, because he heard voices and was convinced that the ‘voices’ would kill him.
– I was always afraid that someone would kill me. I had to have something to defend myself with, he says in court.
Already, as he sat in prison, he was psychotic, he explains. After release, he moved home to his family in Minnesota, but he also felt that the family was dangerous for him.
He took the axe and a bag on a or special waste collection point. On the evening of 17.February he went to the Circle K gas station in order to be free of ‘voices’. He’d have a car, so he could run away from those who persecuted him, he explained.
The 19-year-old couple driving in a car and went into the store. On the video surveillance shows the 30-year-old walking around outside the gas station, but first, he has not the axe. A little after he comes back with the bag with the axe, as he has picked up in the vicinity.
When the couple comes out of the store, he threatens them with the axe and demands the car keys. But the pair run into the store again chased by the axeman. The video shows that the 30-year-old chasing the pair around the store, before he beats the 19-year-old woman in the head, then she falls bleeding on the floor, and keeps the head.
The 19-year-old man follows the axeman out of the store: – I will say, that he should give me the keys, but he will not. Out by the car discussing the axeman with the 19-year-olds, and the 30-year-old on the loose on the 19-year-old with the ax.
– They were very scared, almost as scared as me. I was asking about the key, but I think he was too scared to see it. Otherwise he had surely given me the key, ” explains the 30-year-old in court.
– It was small cut, no big hug, it was not someone who could kill, I think, said the 30-year-old, who tells us, that the axe was blunt. He had not considered that young people could die of økseslagene.
I had not considered that someone would die that night. I would just get in the car, he said.
After the attack threw the 30-year-old axe away. It is never found. He went to Virum, where he found an empty house that was under renovation, and lodged in the house.
the Next day seized he is, according to the indictment, a silver grey Hyundai Getz from a woman on the Temperature.. He drove to Ringsted, where he 19. February robbing a Danish Bank of 63.000 dkk., after he had first abandoned a robbery in Nordea.
He went to Copenhagen, where he lodged in a hotel, and delivered his passport in the reception. It got the hotel to alert the police, because the 30-year-old at the time was wanted with the photo in the media. Shortly after the call a staff member on the pornoklubben Club 34 in Istedgade and told that the missing stayed on the pornoklubben. Here he was arrested by heavily armed police.
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the 112 – 24. jan. 2019 – at. 09:10 Øksemand too sick for prison: 19-year-old pair of chopped down at the gas station
The defendants ‘øksemand’ was arrested at this pornoklub in Istedgade. Photo: Kenneth Meyer
