Priest convinced nanny to murder with ‘texts from God’

A SWEDISH priest was jailed for life yesterday for manipulating his former nanny into murdering his wife, using mobile phone text messages he said were from God to convince her to commit the crime.

Priest convinced nanny to murder with ‘texts from God’

The Uppsala District Court ruled that Helge Fossmo, 32, a Pentecostal church pastor, convinced Sara Svensson, 27, to shoot his wife as she was sleeping in their house in Knutby, near Stockholm. She also shot Fossmos’ neighbour, Daniel Linde, who survived the attack.

Svensson, who was deemed mentally ill by a panel of judges, was sentenced to psychiatric care.

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