A Danish teenager who admitted to regularly watching jihadist videos
online, has been sentenced to nine years in prison for stabbing her
mother to death together with an Iraqi friend.
Lisa Borch, then
15, and her 29-year-old friend Bakhtiar Mohammed Abdullah were convicted
on Tuesday of killing Tina Romer Holtegaard in her sleep by repeated
stabs to the chest.
"She has said herself that she sometimes
watches Islamic State (ISIS) videos," prosecutor Karina Skou told AFP.
The investigation did not determine which videos the defendant had seen.
A
court in the northern town of Hjorring dismissed claims by Borch that
she had seen "a white man running" from her home the night of the
murder.
"It
can be indisputedly upheld that Lisa Borch, during the emergency call,
pretended to give CPR" in the bedroom "even though she was actually in
the workshop", the district court said in its ruling.
After her
mother went to bed, the girl claimed to have been watching TV and
admitted to having watched "something with ISIS" on her mother's iPad.
Asked if the video clips had included ISIS beheadings, she said she couldn't remember.
The events took place in October 2014 in the northern village of Kvissel.
A
forensic investigation found that there had been internet searches made
for mass executions on a laptop belonging to Abdullah, who claimed
Borch was responsible for them.
The 29-year-old Iraqi was sentenced to 13 years in prison, after which he will be deported.
"Lisa
showed him pictures on her phone of guns and machine guns, but that was
not something he was interested in," his testimony read.
However, the prosecutor said Islamic radicalisation "had not been a major theme" in the case.
"It could very well have been someone who was subjected to something cruel," she said of the video clips.
The
girl's stepfather, Jens Holtegaard, said she had become "more and more
introverted" in the spring of 2014, but had been denied psychiatric care
by the authorities.
They "wouldn't do anything because Lisa was not sick enough", he told tabloid BT.
Borch and Abdullah have both appealed their convictions.
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
ISIS may have inspired Danish teen to stab mom
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