STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- Lawyers for a man who has admitted killing Sweden's foreign minister want him treated as a psychiatric patient, not a common criminal.
Mijailo Mijailovic, 25, was convicted of stabbing Anna Lindh to death in a Stockholm department store last year but only at the behest of voices in his head that told him to, the BBC reported Friday. Mijailovic says he never meant to murder the popular politician and heir apparent to the prime ministership.
In July an appeals court ordered Mijailovic to undergo psychiatric care, reversing earlier judgments that concluded he was not mentally ill at the time of the murder and should therefore serve his life sentence. That same court, however, upheld his murder conviction.
On Thursday six psychiatrists testified in a closed session of Stockholm's Supreme Court about Mijailovic's mental condition, with four saying he was mentally ill and two saying he was well enough to do his time.
The hearing was to continue Friday and a decision rendered in December.
