Lars-Inge Svartenbrandt
[7] Twelve years old, he was placed under protective public care order (skyddsuppfostran) and ended up in juvenile detention school.
In 1967, he received his first detention sentence (interneringsdom) for grand theft (grov stöld) and threat to public servant (hot mot tjänsteman).
[4] He had managed to hide in a saucepan cupboard in the security department and the guards had not noticed that he was missing when they locked up the prisoners for the night.
Svartenbrandt crawled out of his cupboard after a few hours and unlocked his fellow prisoners' cell doors using counterfeit keys.
[10] The escapers included Lars-Inge Svartenbrandt, Bosse Dynamit, Nisse Pistol, Kalle Kanon and the Yugoslav Embassy murderers Miro Barešić and Anđelko Brajković.
[11][12] Together with 15 other hard-hit interns, including terrorist Miro Barešic, he climbed over the "fugitive walls" from what which was called Europe's safest prison, and disappeared.
Svartenbrandt and Nisse Pistol and two other companions jumped over the fence and hijacked the garbage truck by threatening the driver with a weapon they came across.
Svartenbrandt confessed seven years later that he stabbed one of the victims with a hunting knife, but argued that his companion, who was now dead, fired the fatal shots.
[8][16] The day after Svartenbrandt and Benny Lilja rushed into the post office on Döbelnsgatan in Stockholm with rubber masks depicting Elvis Presley and John Travolta over their faces and AK 4's in their hands.
Svartenbrandt was sentenced to twelve years in prison for attempted murder, aggravated robbery (grovt rån) and unlawful deprivation of liberty (olaga frihetsberövande).
After a few days he robbed Handelsbanken at Sankt Eriksplan in Stockholm dressed in a women's wig, fake mustache and a plastic gun.
[8] He came across some 100,000 SEK and fled on a bicycle through Rörstrandsgatan to Karlberg Palace Park, and was arrested in the bushes at Pompe's grave (dogs owned by Charles XII of Sweden).
After the arrest, he applied to the non-conformist LP Foundation (LP-stiftelsen), was baptized and was admitted to a theological education in Örebro and said, after getting out from prison in February 1995, that "I'm going to be a driver's license holder and taxpayer."
He was released from Norrtälje Prison in early February 1999 and then left his family in Linköping and was living with his new girlfriend at a friend in Stockholm.
[9] During the night of Tuesday the 8 June, shortly after half past three in the morning, three police officers were called, two men and one woman, to the parking lot outside Linköping University Hospital.
[19] On 13 July, he was arrested at a McDonald's restaurant in Upplands Väsby after having been shadowed by the police since Länna south of Stockholm.
[22] Svartenbrandt was arrested and convicted in Bollnäs District Court for aggravated robbery and kidnapping and was sentenced to seven years in prison.
[23] After five years in Norrtälje Prison, he was released on 29 October 2007 and then published his second book ...men saknar kärlek (2007), and gave lectures to paying audiences in Dalarna.
In January 2008, he was arrested for offence against the Swedish Knife Act (brott mot knivlagen) and drug offenses in the mall in his former hometown of Borlänge.
The robbers stolen blue Volvo 440 was found an hour after the robbery on a forest road at Magnilbo west of Säter.
[27] The next day at 05:56 in the morning, he was arrested on Riksväg 62 north of Råda at the entrance to Hagfors Airport[28] in Värmland together with a woman.
[34] Less than a day later, Svartenbrandt was reported to the police for unlawful threat (olaga hot) after threatening his daughter Jackie Ferm.
[35] On 5 December 2014 Svartenbrandt was arrested on probable cause suspected of rape by Falu District Court after having surrendered voluntarily to the police in Lund.
[15] Svartenbrandt was arrested again on 19 May 2015 on suspicion of attempted murder and gross weapons offence (grovt vapenbrott) after a brawl in a residence in Ställberg in Ljusnarsberg Municipality.
Anna-Lena Carlander, Svartenbrandt's wife, suffered minor smoke inhalation injuries and was rescued from the apartment by emergency services.
[42] Lars-Inge Svartenbrandt had five children; three with his first wife Susanna Franzén – including the daughter Jackie Ferm,[43] who participated as a contestant on the 2010 reality show Paradise Hotel on the Swedish TV6 channel.
[46] He was allowed to attend his son's funeral service at Sankt Johannes Church in Landskrona, albeit escorted by three corrections officers from the Norrtälje Prison.
