Helge Arnold Fossmo (born 27 July 1971) is a Swedish Pentecostal pastor sentenced to life imprisonment for solicitation of the Knutby murder in Sweden in 2004.
Helge Fossmo was born to Norwegian parents in the village of Björneborg, close to Kristinehamn in Värmland County.
The family was not particularly religious, but when he was about ten years old Fossmo joined the scouting organization of the Mission Covenant Church in Björneborg.
In Kristinehamn this was a small group inspired by Ulf Ekman's Livets Ord, part of the Word of Faith movement.
In Knutby, Fossmo and Waldau started in 1997 a month-long training school, which has been held three times a year since then.
Fossmo's web page with Christian links is dominated by Word of Faith (Livets Ord, Morris Cerullo, Kenneth Hagin, Benny Hinn, John Avanzini, Kenneth Copeland), but also includes Pentecostalism (IBRA Radio, Kensington Temple, Oral Roberts) and others (Willow Creek Community Church, Ray Stedman).
[8] Reading the Bible, they found that the metaphorical interpretatation of Bride of Christ as the Church is not explicit in the New Testament texts.
[12] Although there was a hole in her skull and a toxic concentration of dextropropoxyphene was found in her blood, her death was ruled an accident.
The assault was not reported to the police, and the Fossmos took a plane to a Bible school in Hong Kong.
Daniel Linde was shot in the chest and in his mouth, but he managed to call emergency services and he survived.
[19] He then appealed to the European Court of Human Rights,[20] but on 13 February 2007, the judges decided not to hear his case.
[21] At the end of August 2006, Fossmo admitted guilt in an interview with TV4 and said that he would put his cards on the table for the police.
[26] In January 2015, the Göta Court of Appeal repealed the decision, on the penalty requirement of at least 24 years of imprisonment for the severity of the crime, so that the application for parole was premature.
[27] In late 2019, the court accepted a fixed sentence of 26 years, and was subsequently released in early 2022.