A Swedish court has ruled that Sture Bergwall, who was cleared of murder a year ago after over 20 years locked up as Sweden's most prolific serial killer, is no longer obliged to undergo assisted psychiatric treatment.
The chief medical officer at Sweden's high-security mental hospital Säter has recommended that former mass murder convict Sture Bergwall be offered eased restrictions.
Swedish Supreme Court judge Göran Lambertz is moving to a new role following a week in which he came in for heavy criticism over his handling of a case of once self-confessed cannibal Thomas Quick.
Swedish Supreme Court judge Göran Lambertz is facing calls for his resignation over his stance in an ongoing debate about mismanagement in the case of once self-professed cannibal Thomas Quick, who has been acquitted of eight murders.
Sweden's justice minister has appointed the head of the Thomas Quick inquiry to find out how the country's justice system convicted a man for eight murders before overturning each and every guilty verdict. The once self-professed cannibal is now fighting for his release.
Sture Bergwall, better known as self-confessed serial killer Thomas Quick who was acquitted after retracting all his confessions, said he is hopeful he will be released from psychiatric care following a hearing held on Monday.
Sture Bergwall, known as self-confessed serial killer Thomas Quick who retracted all his confessions, will not be let out of psychiatric care. Bergwall dubbed the decision "Soviet" in its "disregard for justice".
Sweden's justice minister has asked her Norwegian counterpart for assistance in getting to the bottom of how now-cleared Swedish "serial killer" Thomas Quick was tied to several murders.
Sweden's justice minister has ordered a structural review to find out how the judiciary first felled then cleared "serial killer" Thomas Quick of eight murders, in the landmark legal case which took a final twist on Wednesday.
Swedish prosecutors have discarded the eighth and final murder charge against the self-confessed serial killer and cannibal Thomas Quick, who in 2008 recanted his alleged participation in a series of brutal killings.
Sture Bergwall, better known as self-confessed serial killer Thomas Quick, took to his blog on Wednesday from the inside of his psychiatric detention to comment on being cleared of an eighth and final murder charge.
Sweden's most high-profile legal drama, centred around the convicted serial murderer Thomas Quick, nears its close Wednesday as prosecutors rule whether to drop the eighth and final murder charge against the self-confessed cannibal.
A Swedish man originally convicted of eight murders saw two more of the killings wiped from his record when the prosecutor's office announced Tuesday it was dropping charges in a retrial.
A court in northern Sweden has granted Thomas Quick, who had previously been found guilty of eight murders, a retrial for the last three killings for which he had been convicted.
Thomas Quick, who had at one time been convicted of eight murders, has been acquitted in the killings of two Norwegian women, Trine Jensen and Gry Storvik, in Oslo in the 1980s.
Supreme Court Justice Göran Lambertz has been slammed for taking a personal stance in the debate about alleged mismanagement of the case of convicted serial killer Thomas Quick, who has since been acquitted of several murders.
The Social Democrats want the government to appoint an independent commission to review the controversial case of convicted serial killer Thomas Quick, who has since been acquitted of several murders.
The families of murder victims originally thought to have been killed by sentenced serial killer Thomas Quick are now demanding an independent investigation of the justice scandal surrounding Quick, who has been acquitted of several murders.
Convicted serial killer Thomas Quick, who recently retracted confessions for eight murders, has formally petitioned the Court of Appeal for a retrial over the murder of an 11-year-old boy in 2001.
A Swedish man, long considered to be the most dangerous serial killer in Scandinavia, was acquitted on Friday of the 1988 murder of a nine-year-old Norwegian girl.
Convicted serial killer Thomas Quick, who recently retracted confessions for eight murders, has formally petitioned the Svea Court of Appeal for a retrial in two further murder cases.
The Swedish appeals court on Friday overturned a decision to convict serial killer Thomas Quick for the murder of nine-year-old Therese Johannessen in Norway in 1988.
