Any updates on what happens now? After the hearing on Sept. 1st?
TIA! :wave:
19 years? I feel so bad for her parents.
In a country with one of the lowest murder rates in the world, the killing of a 20-year-old woman upended the nation’s sense of itself.
Try to keep in the context of Iceland - 20 years is equivalent to life imprisonment as they strive for rehabilitation - it may also be due to him being a foreigner, I'm not sure. There have been murderers with as few as 4 year sentences! Here is some info:
Life imprisonment in Iceland - Wikipedia
How a rare murder in Iceland has chilled a nation
(this is before the new prison was built) Doing Time In Iceland - The Reykjavik Grapevine