A 31-year-old man on trial for murdering his three sisters in Oslo last fall paid his taxes just minutes before he allegedly attacked his siblings with an axe.

Shahzad Khan is charged with the triple murder of his sisters at Kalbakken in Oslo last year. PHOTO: POLITIET The sisters’ bodies were found inside Shahzad Khan’s home. All had been attacked with an axe. PHOTO: ERLEND AAS/SCANPIX

The trial of Shahzad Khan, age 31, started in an Oslo court on Tuesday. He’s charged with killing his 27-year-old sister Sobia Khan and 13-year-old sister Nafisa Shaheen Khan inside the family home with an axe. A third sister, 24-year-old Saadia Shaheen, was also attacked with an axe and shot several times.

As testimony got underway, Shahzad Khan declared himself “partially guilty.”

Prosecutors said there’s no doubt that Khan committed the murders. His youngest brother encountered him in the home in Oslo’s Kalbakken district after finding the bloody and lifeless bodies in a bed on the second floor. Khan himself threw the youngest brother out of the house. The younger man then called police.

Shahzad Khan, who worked as a taxi driver in Oslo, was apprehended a few hours later after telling police he was the one they were after.

Shahzad Khan is said to have suffered psychological problems and his defense lawyer is surprised he’s been deemed fit for trial. Prosecutors, meanwhile, said they had evidence that he paid several bills, including a tax claim for NOK 80,000, over a telephone bill paying service just minutes before the bloody rampage began.

Shahzad Khan hasn’t told police anything more about the murders, and his motive remains unclear. He reportedly had substance abuse and financial problems.

He lived in the Kalbakken house with his wife and fur children, but they were in Pakistan when the murders occurred.

By Aftenposten’s reporter
Jostein Ihlebæk and 

Aftenposten English Web Desk
Nina Berglund

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Mullah Krekar (right) and lawyer Harald Stabell at recent Supreme Court proceedings.

PHOTO: BJØRN SIGURDSØN / SCANPIX

Norwegian authorities will likely restrict mullah Krekar’s freedom of movement when a new Immigrant Act comes into effect. Krekar, founder of the militant Islamic Kurdish guerrilla group Ansar al-Islam, can finally be legally deported from Norway, but will not be until his home country of Iraq is considered safe by Norwegian authorities.

In the interim, Krekar will likely face a type of house arrest that will make it easier to monitor him, radio station P4 reports.

A proposal contained in the new Immigrant Act allows the government to impose a fixed abode for and regular reports from a person deemed a threat to national security. A recent Supreme Court ruling confirmed that there were grounds to assess Krekar a threat to national security.

“The proposal means that Krekar may also be forbidden from staying at certain locations,” said state secretary at the Ministry of Labor and Social Inclusion Libe Rieber-Mohn.

“We want to increase security. At the same time, we cannot intern people like Krekar because it would violate international conventions,” Rieber-Mohn said.

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By Wilfred Zulu

API/APN in Lusaka– Two Scottish Anglican Church nuns have fled Zambia after they were exposed for allegedly ill-treating 18 orphans at an orphanage.
This came to light when the Human Rights Commission (HRC) visited the orphanage to establish the alleged abuse of the children.
Commissioner, Godfridah Sumaili led her team to the orphanage after Medicare, a private health institution, faxed a letter to the HRC exposing the alleged ill-treatment of the orphans at the convent by the two Scottish sisters namely Dorothy and Jane aged 80 and 72, respectively.

After their misdeeds were exposed, the two sisters decided to abandon the orphanage situated 80 kilometres south of Mkushi district, 260 kilometres north of the Capital Lusaka, leaving four Zambian Anglican sisters to be in charge.
Sister-in-charge at the orphanage, Prudence Kunda narrated to the HRC how the two sisters mistreated them with the orphans whose age was between five and 16.

She said at the time the orphanage was started by the two sisters in 1997 with financial support from Scotland, all was well and the children felt at home but in the last five years, things changed.
“When Medicare visited this place this year, they were shocked to discover that no one was allowed to receive medical treatment at the local health post and this forced them to report the matter to the HRC,” sister Kunda said.  The two sisters who had at the time of the visit away in Scotland, only returned to pick up their belongings after learning of the HRC’s visit at the orphanage.
Kunda said the menu for the orphans was bad as they only survived on a bun with tea for lunch and supper on many occasions and that never seemed to bother the two sisters. 

“The orphans starved while food for their dogs was readily available. The children had no freedom to play around and watch videos.
“These people even went to an extent where they even allowed dogs to pray at the chapel at the expense of the orphans whose clothing was bad as you can see them,” sister Kunda recounted.
She said the two sisters could receive clothes but they took them away to some unknown places without giving the children some.
“The children lack good beddings and we would appreciate any assistance in this form as well as capital to begin a piggery and engage in farming to sustain them.

“We reported this issue to the welfare department and when they offered to help the two sisters told them they were able to run the orphanage smoothly when that was not true,” she said.

The orphanage has no vehicle because the two sisters sold the one that used to be there when they decided to leave. An orphan, Gladys Musuka aged 15, a grade nine pupil at a nearby school said she lived in fear with her colleagues at the orphanage when the two white sisters were around but now they felt at home despite facing welfare difficulties. “We were called pigs and threatened that whoever failed at school would leave this place,” she narrated.

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