Danish teen killed mom after watching Islamist video | Inquirer News

Danish teen killed mom after watching Islamist video

/ 09:16 AM September 17, 2015

FILE - This file image taken from an online video released by the Islamic State group's al-Furqan media arm on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015, purports to show the group threatening to kill two Japanese hostages that the militants identify as Kenji Goto Jogo, left, and Haruna Yukawa, right, unless a $200 million ransom is paid within 72 hours.  Japan's government is investigating a new message purported to be from the Islamic State group Saturday, Jan. 24, 2015 holding two Japanese hostages. The Associated Press could not verify the contents of the message, which varied greatly from previous videos released by the Islamic State group, which now holds a third of both Syria and Iraq. (AP Photo, File)

This file image taken from an online video released by the Islamic State group’s al-Furqan media arm on January 20, 2015, purports to show the group threatening to kill two Japanese hostages that the militants identify as Kenji Goto Jogo, left, and Haruna Yukawa, right, unless a $200 million ransom is paid within 72 hours. A 15-year-old Danish girl has been found to watch such Islamist video before killing her mother. AP

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — A Danish teenager who admitted to regularly watching jihadist videos online has been sentenced to nine years in prison for stabbing her mother to death together with an Iraqi friend.

Lisa Borch, then 15, and her 29-year-old friend Bakhtiar Mohammed Abdullah were convicted Tuesday of killing Tina Romer Holtegaard in her sleep by repeated stabs to the chest.

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“She has said herself that she sometimes watches Islamic State videos,” prosecutor Karina Skou told AFP. The investigation did not determine which videos the defendant had seen.

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A court in the northern town of Hjorring dismissed claims by Borch that she had seen “a white man running” from her home the night of the murder.

“It can be indisputedly upheld that Lisa Borch during the emergency call pretended to give CPR” in the bedroom “even though she was actually in the workshop,” the district court said in its ruling.

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After her mother went to bed, the girl claimed to have been watching TV and admitted to having watched “something with IS” on her mother’s iPad.

Asked if the video clips had included ISIS beheadings, she said she couldn’t remember.

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