All rights reserved. We are currently without a webmaster but hope to rectify the situation within the next couple of weeks. The attacker had forced himself into the flat she shared with her boyfriend, brandishing a knife. Her boyfriend was cut deeply on his arm and hands, and the attacker himself was wounded on both arms when he left the premises. He has admitted to murder.
Police suspect that the murder was an act of revenge.
The attacker is 21 years old and has no previous criminal record, apart from recent rape charges. He is being held in custody where he will undergo psychiatric tests. A special church service took place on Saturday in her memory. The President presented Queen Margaret with a special present he had commissioned by Icelandic goldsmith Gudbrandur Jezorski. The present is a silver plaque, supported by two pillars of Icelandic rock.