Murdered ambulance caregiver – this was the punishment

26-year-old Liam Hast in Harmånger is sentenced to 18 years in prison for the murder of ambulance caregiver Helena Löfgren in September this year. This is the decision of Hälsingland District Court.

It is on September 20 this year that 47-year-old ambulance caregiver Helena Löfgren is stabbed ”repeatedly” when she, together with a colleague, is called to Harmånger due to a man who is mentally unwell.

Helena is so seriously injured that she dies.

18 years in prison

The perpetrator, 26-year-old Liam Hast, is now sentenced to 18 years in prison for murder. He is also convicted of assaulting a public official, as he attacked another ambulance caregiver three days before the murder of Helena.

Both prosecutors in the case, Elin Källberg and Fatma Celik, as well as the deceased ambulance caregiver’s relatives, had requested that Hast be sentenced to life imprisonment. A request that is rejected by the court.

”According to the district court’s assessment, the act cannot be considered to have been so carefully planned or characterized by any such special premeditation that the punishment for those reasons should be determined to life imprisonment”, Hälsingland District Court writes in its judgment.

Intellectually disabled

According to a forensic psychiatric report, Liam Hast suffers from ”ADHD of combined type”, with hyperactivity, inattention, unspecified personality syndrome with antisocial traits, and severe alcohol use disorder.

However, he does not have a ”serious mental disorder within the meaning of the Penal Code” and the murder was not committed under the influence of such a disorder, the court establishes.

In police interrogations, Hast admitted to stabbing the ambulance caregiver, but claimed that he did not intend to kill her. The court points out that Liam Hast is indeed ”not so gifted”, but that despite that, he should have been ”well aware that repeated quick stabs with a knife to someone’s upper body entail a great risk of a fatal outcome”.

Overall, this means that Liam Hast is sentenced to prison, and not to forensic psychiatric care.