Today, lawyers for 68-year-old Naum Conevski will be pleading his case at the Eastern High Court in Copenhagen to try and obtain parole for him and eventually enable him to return to his homeland, Macedonia.
Conevski holds the dubious record for being the prisoner who has sat longest in a Danish prison, having now served 34 years of a life sentence for the killing of two boys on Amager Strand, TV2 Nyheder reports.
Conevski’s lawyer feels the sentence is unduly harsh. The previous record-holder was released after serving 32 years and 10 months for killing four policemen. However, Conevski’s crime was judged to be especially cold-blooded and he was subsequently found to be clinically insane and has now spent 30 years in a succession of secure mental hospital.
Although personnel at the Saint Hans psychiatric centre have argued he is stable and no longer a risk, the Retslægerådet legal council still feels there is a risk he could in the future commit further serious crimes.
