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Serial thief dragged from law loophole


A man convicted of at least 750 burglaries in Norway has finally been jailed, after a new evaluation of his mental health concluded that he could be held responsible for his actions. Read the full story

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Man arrested for shooting at ‘alien invaders’


A man who fired several shots from his central Swedish flat when he thought he was being attacked by aliens has been charged with possessing an illegal weapon and threatening a police officer. Read the full story

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Medical agency stumped by exorcist killer case


The National Board of Forensic Medicine in Sweden has admitted that it cannot fully assess the relapse risk of a man imprisoned for killing his seven year-old step-daughter in an ‘exorcism’. Read the full story

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Missing Amager man remains a mystery


Danish police have admitted that they are still no closer to identifying a mystery man who appeared in the Amager district last month uttering nothing but the words: “missing person”. Read the full story

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Finnish soldiers to be psychoanalysed on return from Afghanistan


The Finnish military is preparing to hire a troop of psychologists and therapist to help soldiers returning from Afghanistan with mental health problems. According to national daily newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, a Defence College study found that more than half of all military personnel returning from peacekeeping and crisis management missions experienced domestic disputes and stress-like symptoms within weeks of getting home. Read the full story

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Man drives car into Reykjavik hospital


landspitaliIn a strange incident, a man drove his car through the window of the mental health department at Reykjavik’s Landspitali hospital this weekend. Read the full story

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Finnish government to ban unsuitable students


violenceThe Finnish government is investigating ways in which to weed out what it determines are “unfit” students from educational areas where they could be considered harmful to fellow students or the profession. Read the full story

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Tragic story of a dangerous gift from Iceland


lostA gifted British boy with an exceptionally high I.Q. and a photographic memory has had his own memory preserved in a new book he helped write with his mother.

Titus Dickens came from a loving and stable family and was entertaining his grandfather by quoting Churchill’s speeches at just 18 months of age. Exceptionally talented in art, singing and acting, Titus had the highest I.Q. his psychologist had ever seen.

But Titus’s gift slowly turned into a curse, The Telegraph reports. Buckling under the pressure to excel, and dispirited by interactions with his peers, he spiralled into an addictive search for ‘the ultimate high’ through drugs and stimulants; be they legal, illegal or prescribed. Read the full story

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German found guilty on Sweden murder charges


justiceChristine Schurrer, a German national, was found guilty in a Swedish court of murdering two Swedish infants and critically injuring their mother during a brutal attack sparked by jealousy over her ex-boyfriend. The 32 year-old woman is currently awaiting her sentence pending a psychological evaluation.

The judges decided the circumstantial evidence presented was sufficient to prove that Schurrer broke into the home of her ex-boyfriend’s current lover in the central Swedish town of Arboga and committed the murders. Using a “hammer or hammer-like object” Schurrer repeatedly struck the toddlers and their mother with full intent to kill.

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