Isakin Daniel Drabbad, né Jimmy Daniel Isaksson, later named Isakin Jonsson (born 14 October 1978), also known as the Skara Cannibal (), is a Swedish man who murdered the mother of five Helle Christensen in Skara, Sweden in November 2010. The then 32-year-old Jonsson decapitated his girlfriend and then ate parts of her body. He was convicted of murder to time in an institutional psychiatric care.
During his time at the psychiatric hospital, Jonsson has created several controversies that created headlines both in Sweden and internationally. In December 2011, he got engaged to what the media called the Vampire Woman, Michelle Gustafsson, a murderer in her own right and an inmate of the same psychiatric hospital. Together, they mockingly blogged about their committed crimes from the psychiatric hospital's computer, which gave rise to a motion in the Swedish parliament to stop Internet use for patients in Swedish psychiatric institutions.
In 2017, Jonsson made headlines again after selling voodoo dolls and other art containing blood and bodily fluids online from inside the hospital. He has also posted several clips of himself on YouTube filmed in the hospital grounds and during his furloughs. In the same year, he made big headlines when it was reported that Jonsson had been together with carers inside Karsudden Hospital in Katrineholm. Jonsson was denied furlough to marry the woman, who resigned and was placed under a restraining order as she was considered a security risk. Jonsson, since 2017 with the surname Drabbad, is still being cared for in forensic psychiatric care, but since 2020 is registered at an address in Katrineholm.
Background
Isakin Jonsson was born Jimmy Daniel Isaksson on 14 October 1978 in Köping, Sweden and moved to Västerås at the age of two. He was in and out of institutions during his upbringing. He has been guilty of drug offenses and theft several times. It have happened in several locations in southern and central Sweden. When Jonsson committed the murder in 2012, he had a nine-year-old daughter. The daughter, Jamie-Lee, later wrote the book Skarakannibalens dotter ("The Cannibal's Daughter") about her upbringing.
Helle Christensen and Isakin Jonsson met in 2009 when they were both patients at a psychiatric clinic in Borås. They both had checkered pasts with mental health issues and both had felony convictions. They had limited contacts with the labor market. Helle Christensen had five children, all living with their fathers. Helle Christensen and Isakin Jonsson shared different homes and moved from Borås to Skara in the fall of 2010. The three bedroom apartment, which was located at Valhallagatan 13 D in Skara, was rented by Isakin Jonsson's mother. The apartment was sparsely furnished and contact was made with the social service in Skara about grants for home equipment. Isakin Jonsson and Helle Christensen had plans to live as cohabitants in the future and possibly start a tattoo and piercing shop in the apartment.
Helle's sister Britt has told the media that Isakin had a violent temper, that she often had to go and pick up her sister after they argued. Helle is said to have reported that he never hurt her even though she showed up with bruises or on one occasion broke her leg in three places. During the preliminary police investigation after the murder, the police found Helle's diary, which gave a different picture of the boyfriend. It was written shortly before the murder and describes how scared Helle was, but that she did not dare to tell her loved ones. She wrote that Isakin is a different person and that "he talks about punishments, about all the evil." She also describes his bad moods, personality changes and aggressiveness, but notes: "I can handle it because I love him." Shortly before the murder, however, she contacted a woman at a local library near her home and asked for help in finding a hostel where she could feel safe. But the librarian had to promise not to call the police. In his statement during the trial, public prosecutor Lars Johansson mentioned that Helle Christensen would start a new life in Skara and, among other things, start a tattoo and piercing shop. The plan was that they would live together in the future.
Murder of Helle Christensen
Isakin Jonsson murdered his then girlfriend, mother of five Helle Christensen, 40, on Valhallagatan 13 D in Skara on 12 November 2010. On the day of the murder, the couple got up at noon and got dressed. They then went out shopping. Isakin bought four beers and Jägermeister at Systembolaget and Helle bought food at the local Ica store Munken.