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Two people were found killed at a house in Ski, in Akershus outside Oslo, on Saturday 14 December 2024: a woman in her seventies and her son, a man in his forties. A third member of the household, the woman's daughter and the man's sister, then in her forties, was arrested and charged with both killings. All three were registered at the same address. In the days after the killings her defence lawyer said she had given a detailed account, accepted criminal guilt as charged at that stage and wished to cooperate with the police, and that the police had requested a preliminary psychological assessment. Her trial ran for five days at Follo og Nordre Østfold district court. On Friday 21 August 2026 the state prosecutor asked for a sentence of 17 years' imprisonment, arguing that the killings were carried out in a particularly ruthless manner against two people who were in her care and who trusted her. Counsel for the victims' family sought damages, compensation and forfeiture of her inheritance rights. Her defence asked for acquittal. What happened was not disputed at trial. The accused admitted killing her mother and her brother but did not accept criminal guilt, and the question before the court was whether she was criminally sane at the time. A forensic psychiatric assessment was central to the case: court-appointed experts diagnosed severe depression with psychotic symptoms. The mother died of heavy pressure to the neck, according to the forensic pathologists. The brother was killed with a knife; the court heard that considerable force had been used and that one of the stab wounds had passed through a rib. Evidence at trial described a household in severe decay, and the woman had taken on an increasing and very extensive care burden at home from 2015 onwards. On 8 September 2026 the court acquitted her, finding that she lacked criminal responsibility at the time of the acts and that there was no basis for committal to compulsory mental health care. She was ordered to pay over 400,000 kroner in compensation to her surviving brother but did not lose her inheritance rights. The prosecutor said it would be for the Director of Public Prosecutions to decide whether to appeal.
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- incident_date corrected from 2026-08-21, the date of the trial report, to 2024-12-14, the Saturday the two victims were found killed. city corrected from "oslo" to "ski" and placeholder coordinates [0, 0] replaced with the Ski centroid. Two victims recorded in victims[]; victim kept as the aggregate legacy field with unknown values, since the two differ in age and sex. judicial_status set to on_trial. The contemporaneous NRK report from December 2024 was added as a second source. slug updated to match.