Perpetrator shouted "pedophile" and "bøssesvin", while he beat the janitor with an axe.

A 41-year-old mentally ill man on Tuesday convicted by the Copenhagen city Court for attempted manslaughter.

He struck a caretaker in the head with an axe repeatedly in march in a revival of His Knudsens Space on the outer part of Østerbro in Copenhagen.

the Judgment sounds on the placing on the retspsykiatrisk department.

It writes Ekstra Bladet.

The 41-year-old had hallucinations on the morning of the 13. march, when he thought he had seen the man who had allegedly raped him as a child.

According to the Ekstra Bladet has the caretaker explained that he had knocked on the door of the 41-year-old to offer help, because he seemed mentally unstable.

But the man came out with the ax in his hand and went to the attack on the caretaker, who tried to escape.

Extra, the Magazine writes, that the perpetrator shouted "pedophile" and "bøssesvin", while he struck the victim.

Subsequently contacted the perpetrator even told to do.

- Hello? I am afraid that I have been trying to kill, told the now-convicted in the phone according to Ekstra Bladet.

It is unknown whether the man has appealed the judgment.

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