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The man in the 45-year-old felt mentally ill and searched Thursday through at Uppsala University Hospital.

He was sent home – and later the same day suspected he might have a knife murdering her nine year old daughter.

– He should have been treated immediately, says law expert Sven-Erik Alhem.

A nine year old girl was murdered.

In connection with the murder knife wounded her mother.

The girl’s father – a man of 45 years old who is the director of an IT company with a turnover of many millions – were arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder and demanded later detained.

A few hours after Thursday’s tragedy in Balsta, it emerged that the man earlier on the day of the murder sought help at Uppsala University Hospital for psychiatric disorders.

sent home

The information was confirmed Friday by Tobias Eriksson, senior consultant in psychiatry at University Hospital.

– The man sought treatment at the University Hospital yesterday, with planned follow-up outpatient care, he says in a press release.

Sven -Erik Alhem, legal expert and former prosecutor, says that the information is damaging for the mental health system.

– He should have received care immediately when he applied himself to the hospital. Obviously, it is so. It had prevented the tragedy would occur. But with hindsight it’s always easy to say how it should have been, he says.

Do the quick resolution

The right expert, who will point out that he is not specifically an expert in health issues, believes that the case be cleared up quickly.

– should normally such a case does not take that long. They have found the murder weapon and secured the witness statements. No matter what the man himself says, there should be sufficient technical evidence and witness evidence to the picture of what happened should become clear, says Sven-Erik Alhem.

Denies crime

On Friday said prosecutors Liselott Herschend that he deny the charges.

– It may be related to his mental state. That he might not be aware of what he has done and that he at all costs try to exonerate himself from the charges, says Sven-Erik Alhem.

Uppsala University Hospital went earlier in the day out with their thinking launching a study to assess the handling of the murder suspect the man.