Madness in The Fast Lane

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Madness in The Fast Lane
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In 2008, BBC cameras filmed two Swedish sisters throwing themselves into traffic on the M6. When it was shown on BBC One, nearly 7 million viewers were glued to their screens, and millions more watched it later on YouTube. The footage was shocking. One previewer wrote “On no account miss this documentary. It opens with what is perhaps the most extraordinary footage I’ve seen on TV”. But this amazing footage was only part of an even more incredible story, one which could not be told at the time for legal reasons.

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This was fascinating, admittedly also quite unsettling, but a really good watch. All took place just down the road from me.

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Wow. That was one strange and disturbing docu. Amazing, that final outcome.

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Woman locked up for making mad dash across M6 stabbed stranger to death the day after she was released from jail
David Wilkes
3rd of September 2009

A deranged woman killed a father of two the day after she walked free from court for dicing with death by running across a motorway in a bizarre incident shown on television. Sabina Eriksson, 41, knifed Glenn Hollinshead four times at his home where he had invited her to stay after she asked him for directions to a bed and breakfast, a court heard. A psychiatrist later found Eriksson, a Swedish national, was suffering from a delusional disorder which could provoke her to use extreme violence.

Mr Hollinshead's devastated family is demanding to know why the extent of of her mental illness was not detected when she was held over her antics on the M6, which were screened on the BBC's Traffic Cops show. Today his brother, Garry Hollinshead, 51, a company director, said: 'I do question the criminal justice system for allowing somebody like this to be let out when she is capable of committing such a crime. Her mental condition should have been properly assessed after what she did on the motorway and the experiences the police had. Her mental disorder should have been picked up prior to her being let out in to the community.'

Eriksson had run across six lanes of speeding traffic on the M6 near Stoke on Trent after getting off a coach when it stopped at Keele services to change drivers. She and her identical twin sister Ursula were spotted walking down the central reservation. When police arrived Sabina was clipped by a car before she and her sister grappled with officers on the hard shoulder before again running into the speeding traffic.

Ursula was hit by a lorry and suffered serious leg injuries and Sabina was knocked out after being hit by car as drivers desperately swerved to avoid the pair. Sabina was treated by paramedics but after coming round she again evaded officers and ran into the road before being finally overpowered. She was held by police for two nights before appearing at North Staffordshire Magistrates in Fenton, Stoke on Trent on May 19 last year,
She admitted assaulting police and trespassing on the motorway but was sentenced to just a day in custody, meaning she was immediately freed.

Later that day she met Mr Hollinshead, 54, a welder and former paramedic, as he walked his dog near his home in Fenton. Eriksson, of Mallow, County Cork, Ireland, asked him if he knew of somewhere to stay and he invited her to his home. The next day Mr Hollinshead, who lived alone, was seen staggering from his house shouting: 'She's stabbed me'. As paramedics unsuccessfully tried to save him, Ericksson was seen nearby hitting herself on the head with a hammer before jumping off a 40-foot bridge onto the A50. She suffered broken bones in the fall but after she recovered she refused to offer any explanation about what had happened.

At Nottingham Crown Court on Wednesday she denied murder but admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. She is in custody awaiting sentence.

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I hadn't seen this before now... bloody hell