Omdat hij alles zelf bedacht had. Hij wilde graag aandacht en zat zwaar onder de medicijnen. 
He was once Sweden’s most infamous serial killer, a self-confessed cannibal who claimed to have murdered 30 people. But Sture Bergwall could soon be freed from a high-security psychiatric unit after prosecutors dropped the last charge against a man they now accept was a fantasist.
The case gripped Sweden in the 1990s, when Bergwall – then known by his alter-ago, Thomas Quick – told police tales of the dozens of people he had raped, killed and even eaten. He was eventually convicted of murdering eight people, including three children.
More than a decade later, however, Bergwall had a different story to tell: encouraged by therapists and befuddled by medication, he had invented Thomas Quick, the serial killer, as a cry for help. Without his confessions, there was little other evidence to back up the convictions, and one by one courts struck them down.
The case has raised questions over why courts found Bergwall guilty of eight crimes when there was no forensic evidence or witness statements to back up his stories. At the time he began confessing to grisly murders spanning decades, he had already been detained in a secure psychiatric unit for three years.
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En heb nog een link, just for the fun of it.
Tl;dr: Hij is dus puur en alleen op zijn eigen verhalen en fantasieën veroordeeld, terwijl er geen verder geen bewijs bestond dat hij daadwerkelijk de opgebiechte moorden begaan had. Nu komt naar voren dat hij alles verzonnen had en blijken de echte moordenaars nog rond te lopen. Oeps, denkt het rechtssysteem van Zweden nu. Het is nog niet zeker wat er nu met hem gaat gebeuren. Alle aanklachten zijn vervallen en hij pleit zelf voor vrijlating.
[ bericht aangepast op 1 aug 2013 - 18:19 ]
If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.
