On February 22 last year, 57-year-old British Ian Roy Parkin was stabbed several times with a knife. He died at the hospital of his injuries.
It happened late in the evening on the Milky Way at Christiania in Copenhagen. Specifically between the Multimedia House and the Lion House near Café Månefiskeren.
On Monday, the trial against the 71-year-old Spanish man living here, who is accused of having killed him, begins in Copenhagen City Court.
The prosecutor demands a prison sentence and that the 71-year-old man be deported from Denmark permanently.
Ian Roy Parkin was the bartender at the Woodstock pub. He was well-liked in the free town and had lived in Denmark since the 1980s.
The Spaniard must have stabbed Ian Roy Parkin several times in the head, neck, neck and on the upper body with a knife.
Hulda Mader, a spokeswoman for Christiania, told BT shortly after the killing that Ian Roy Parkin was a friendly man who did not create enemies.
– He has lived in Christiania and worked at Woodstock for many years. He was a sweet, calm and peaceful person who never hurt anyone, she told the media.
Woodstock is a legendary pub in Christiania, which has been located there since the hippie era.
Last year, the court ruled that the Spaniard should be mentally examined. It was written by Ekstra Bladet on 30 July 2020.
There were closed doors at the constitutional hearing in the case. But according to the media, prosecutor Søren Harbo read part of the defendant’s explanation from the constitutional hearing at the open court hearing.
Here it sounded that the accused had explained that he had planned to kill the 57-year-old for several years because he was tired of him. But the 71-year-old also pleaded not guilty.
Senior prosecutor Marie Petersen is leading the case now, and she cannot comment on the mental examination before the trial begins.
The indictment reads that the prosecution reserves the right to demand that the 71-year-old be sentenced to another sanction, a general punishment. It can, for example, be a treatment sentence.
But Marie Petersen says that the prosecution basically goes after imprisonment for the accused.
Six days have been set aside for the case, which is expected to be completed in June.
Source: The Nordic Page