Helge Fossmo
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Saturday January 26, 2008
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Knutby, a village near Uppsala, became notorious across Sweden when Alexandra Fossmo, wife of Helge Fossmo, a pastor in the local pentecostal church, was found murdered in the early hours of January 10th 2004.
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Thursday December 20, 2007
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Fossmo was sentenced to life imprisonment for conspiracy to murder and attempted murder. He had sent text messages to nanny Sara Svensson to encourage her to murder his wife and his neighbour, who was married to his lover.
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Thursday November 15, 2007
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A Swedish Lutheran pastor who faked cellphone text messages from God to get his nanny-lover to murder his wife and try to kill the husband of a second mistress wants a new trial.
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Wednesday June 20, 2007
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The pastor and his fiancée have been given the go-ahead for their wedding plans after the tax authorities ruled that there were no impediments to their marriage.
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Monday December 18, 2006
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Sara Svensson, the nanny who murdered mother of the children she cared for in the Christian cult community in Knutby, is to be given leave from psychiatric hospital for Christmas, Aftonbladet reports.
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Tuesday December 12, 2006
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The nanny admitted to two shooting, but claimed that she was being controlled by the manipulative pastor of a religious sect.
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Friday September 1, 2006
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Police in Uppsala are to question the Knutby pastor Helge Fossmo after he admitted on Thursday that he was involved in the murder of his wife and the attempted murder of a neighbour in 2004. But the confession has been lambasted by a professor of psychology.
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Thursday August 31, 2006
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On January 10th 2004 Alexandra Fossmo was shot dead while she slept in the village of Knutby, not far from Uppsala. She was the wife of Pastor Helge Fossmo, one of the leaders of the extreme Pentecostal sect that dominated village life, and sister of the woman many claimed was the cult’s real leader, Asa Waldau – otherwise known as the Bride of Christ.
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Friday February 4, 2005
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Despite having been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his second wife in Knutby in January 2004, Pastor Helge Fossmo is still the legal guardian of his three children.
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Wednesday January 5, 2005
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The life sentence handed down by the Court of Appeal in November to the pastor of Knutby will stand, following the Supreme Court's decision not to hear his appeal.
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Sunday November 28, 2004
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The pastor of Knutby, who is currently serving a life sentence for being an accessory to the murder of his wife and attempted murder of a neighbour, was back on the front pages this week as Aftonbladet revealed that he broke restrictions on his custody while the trial was in progress - by secretly making a TV antenna from the metal spirals of two notebooks.
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Friday November 12, 2004
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Pastor Helge Fossmo has been sentenced by the Appeals Court to life imprisonment for the murder of his second wife, Alexandra, and for the attempted murder of a neighbour in January of this year. He was found not guilty of the murder of his first wife in 1999.
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Friday October 29, 2004
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And so the cast of characters in the Knutby trial shuffles off into the wings, where they will wait nervously for the Appeal Court's verdict in two weeks' time.
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Friday October 15, 2004
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There can't be a much trickier job in Sweden at the moment than being a judge in the Knutby Appeals hearing. An absence of evidence means they are unusually dependent upon the testimonies of the defendants, witnesses and experts. And unfortunately none of them seem to be able to agree.
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Thursday October 7, 2004
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Friday October 1, 2004
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No sooner had the verdicts been handed down at the end of Sweden's sensational Knutby trial in early August than the talk of appeals began.
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Saturday August 21, 2004
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - A bizarre murder case involving a Pentecostal pastor convicted of manipulating his former nanny to shoot his wife will go another round in court as both prosecutors and defence lawyers appealed the initial ruling.
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Friday August 20, 2004
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In the absence of much real news this week, the tabloid editors found Knutby appealing.
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Wednesday August 4, 2004
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - The lawyer for a pastor convicted of manipulating his former nanny into murdering his wife said Monday he would appeal the life sentence a court handed down last week.
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Friday July 30, 2004
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Stockholm - A Swedish Lutheran pastor who faked cellphone text messages from God to get his nanny-lover to murder his wife and try to kill the husband of a second mistress, was sentenced to life in jail on Friday.
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Thursday May 20, 2004
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The shadowy underside of small-town Sweden will be exposed to public gaze this week in an extraordinary murder trial involving a nanny and an adulterous minister.
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Thursday May 13, 2004
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Stockholm - A Pentecostal pastor was on Wednesday charged with murder in a highly publicised case, involving several leading members of the congregation.
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Friday May 7, 2004
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Having formally brought charges against a pastor and his children's nanny last week, Uppsala police - and the tabloid press - have been working overtime to get to the bottom of the Knutby murders.
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Saturday May 1, 2004
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The saga that has gripped Sweden since January hit the headlines again this week as murder charges were formally brought against two of the three suspects in one of the most sensational criminal cases in living memory. But "the pastor and the nanny" are just the lead characters in a story that would have had Agatha Christie wondering why she didn't think of it first.
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