Sweden’s Supreme Court is to hear appeals in the case of the convicted killer of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, who was stabbed to death in an exclusive Stockholm department store a year ago.

A SWEDISH appeals court threw out a life prison sentence for the convicted killer of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, ruling that Mijailo Mijailovic should receive psychiatric treatment.

A Swedish appeals court has ruled that Mijailo Mijailovic, the convicted killer of Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, should receive psychiatric care and not face life in prison.

The man convicted of killing Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh hardly uttered a word when he was questioned in an appeals court about the stabbing death, telling his lawyer he did not have the strength to speak.

SWEDEN’S former foreign minister Anna Lindh has been posthumously voted European of the Year in Sweden.

MIJAILO MIJAILOVIC was jailed for life yesterday for the murder of Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh.

Mijailo Mijailovic was jailed for life today for the murder of Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh.

A court in Stockholm today rejected the defence’s request for a review of the psychiatric evaluation of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh’s confessed killer, prompting prosecutors to demand a sentence of life in prison.

The confessed killer of Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh was not suffering from a serious mental illness at the time of the stabbing, according to a psychiatric evaluation released today.

A SWEDISH court ruled yesterday that the confessed killer of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, who said he heard voices in his head before fatally stabbing her, will undergo a psychiatric screening before any verdict is handed down.

A Swedish court ruled today that the confessed killer of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, who said he heard voices in his head before fatally stabbing her, will undergo a psychiatric screening before any verdict is handed down.

Prosecutors in the Anna Lindh murder trial were expected today to question a taxi driver who said he drove a sedated Mijailo Mijailovic home minutes after he stabbed Sweden’s popular foreign minister in a Stockholm department store.

THE man who killed Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh refused to answer questions during the second day of his murder trial in Stockholm.

A friend who was shopping with Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh when she was stabbed to death says her killer did not say a word when he launched his attack.

Prosecutors told a Stockholm court today they wanted to question confessed killer Mijailo Mijailovic again about the stabbing death of Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh.

The killer of Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh went on trial for murder in Stockholm today with his lawyer asking that the charge be reduced to manslaughter.

The killer of Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh was taking the stand today at the start of a murder trial.

THE man who has confessed to murdering Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh said voices in his head, including Jesus, told him to do it.

The man who has confessed to murdering Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh said voices in his head, including Jesus, told him to do it.

Swedish prosecutors today charged a man with the murder of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, setting the stage for a trial later this week.

The trial of the man who has confessed to fatally stabbing Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh last year will start on January 14 after lawyers said they would not seek a pre-trial psychiatric examination.

THE man arrested for stabbing Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh last year has confessed to the crime, his lawyer said yesterday, adding the motive for the murder was not political.

The man suspected by police of fatally stabbing Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh while she shopped with a friend last year has confessed to the crime, his lawyer said in Stockholm today.

DNA from the man suspected of stabbing Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh matches traces found on his clothes and the knife used to kill her, a Swedish prosecutor said in Stockholm today.

Swedish police have completed their investigation into stabbing of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh and are ready to try the lone suspect for murder.

Swedish Prime Minister Goeran Persson yesterday appointed a new foreign minister to replace Anna Lindh, who was stabbed to death last month while shopping with a friend in a Stockholm department store.

A Swedish court ruled today that a suspect in the murder of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh can be held in custody for a further two weeks.

Swedish police say they have "probable grounds" to believe a man they have arrested is the killer of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh.

Swedish police have arrested another suspect in the murder of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, and released a man they had held in custody for more than a week.

SWEDISH police chief Sten Heckscher said yesterday, he was confident police would resolve the killing of foreign minister Anna Lindh, dismissing comparisons with the unresolved 1986 murder of prime minister Olof Palme.

Swedish police were tonight given another week to hold the main suspect in the murder of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh as they seek evidence implicating him in her death.

Stockholm was placed under tight security today, with hundreds of police in the streets of the Swedish capital to protect foreign leaders at a memorial service for murdered Foreign Minister Anna Lindh.

SWEDISH police interrogated and took DNA samples from the suspected killer of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh yesterday, following his capture in a Stockholm suburb, authorities said.

Swedish police today denied two reports that they had captured a man suspected of murdering Foreign Minister Anna Lindh last week.

Swedish police have arrested the suspected killer of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, it was reported in Stockholm today.

Swedish Prime Minister Goeran Persson’s future was on the line today after his humiliating defeat in the euro referendum.

THE murder of popular Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh failed to swing the vote in favour of adopting the euro in yesterday’s referendum.

Swedes narrowly voted to reject adopting the euro, according to exit polls tonight.

Swedes were today voting on whether to adopt the euro after a shadow was cast over the referendum by the murder of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh.

SWEDISH Foreign Minister Anna Lindh was sent an email threatening her and her children two weeks before she was fatally stabbed while out shopping, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday.

Swedish police said today they have no main suspect for the murder of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, but are checking on a number of known criminals they want to question in connection with her brutal stabbing.

Police were stepping up the search for the killer of Sweden’s foreign minister Anna Lindh, as the stunned nation debated its open security policies for government officials.

A SHOCKED Sweden pushed ahead with plans for a referendum on the euro yesterday despite the murder of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh by a mystery knifeman.

The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, and Foreign Affairs Minister Brian Cowen have both paid tribute to Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, who died in hospital this morning after being stabbed in Stockholm yesterday.