Ullanlinna murder: psychiatrist sentenced to life in prison for murdering his wife

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The homicide occurred in December 2022 in the shared apartment of a psychiatrist and his wife in Ullanlinna, Helsinki.

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A psychiatrist sentenced to life imprisonment has to pay the victim's relatives tens of thousands of euros for the suffering.

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The psychiatrist who violently killed his wife in Ulrikasborg is sentenced to life in prison for murder. He demands to undergo a new mental examination - in Sweden.

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The district court considered that the murder was particularly brutal and cruel. According to the mental state examination, the man was guilty at the time of the crime.

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The Helsinki District Court issued a verdict in the case on 30 August. It is not yet in force of law. The Helsinki District Court has sentenced psychiatrist Roope Bob Tikkanen, 49, of murder to life in prison. Tikkanen killed his wife in the couple's shared home in Ullanlinna, Helsinki, in the early hours of 16 December 2022. He struck his wife at least five times in the head, either with a candlestick or other similar astalo.