The man in his thirties who was charged with murder on Monday following a death in Nærbø denies criminal liability. The accused is named Nawid Bayan and is from Afghanistan.

The man continues to deny that any violence took place, says his defence counsel, Arvid Sjødin. The Afghan national has previously been convicted on several occasions since 2008 for various offences, including aggravated assault and domestic violence, writes Stavanger Aftenblad.

He was acquitted of abusing his former partner by the Gulating Court of Appeal in 2017, but was sentenced to one year and two months’ imprisonment for violence against another former girlfriend in 2019. He came to Norway as a refugee in the early 2000s.

In 2008, he was sentenced to community service on two occasions after punching and kicking a fellow pupil at an upper secondary school, and for making death threats and firing a gas pistol at a security guard during a school dance for Year 10 pupils. VG has also reported on the man’s extensive criminal record.

Overall, he has repeatedly come to the attention of the police for violence against women. The victims have tended to withdraw their complaints, perhaps out of fear of the consequences.

“He is not doing well. He wants medical treatment, and we have requested that. It is important to be clear that no violence occurred in the relationship,” Sjødin told Aftenbladet earlier on Monday—before it became known that the woman had been declared dead.

Sjødin is, unsurprisingly, focusing on mental illness. Bayan has not been remanded in custody but has been admitted to K2, a psychiatric ward.

The Afghan national was expelled from Norway following a conviction for a violent offence, but forced returns to Afghanistan have been suspended for a prolonged period, according to NRK.

The accused Afghan is said to be named Nawid Bayan. The murder victim had been admitted to hospital with head injuries a week earlier. In connection with that incident, she reported Bayan to the police for violence.

Nawid Bayan has systematically terrorised Norwegian women while the rule of law has remained paralysed.

Document has been informed that the murder victim was brutally mutilated and tortured before she died.

Bayan was previously the boyfriend of the woman from Jæren who changed her name to Malika and converted to Islam. She became known after coming into conflict with the hairdresser Merete Hodne.

Hodne refused to highlight Malika’s hair because she was wearing a hijab, for which Hodne was subsequently convicted. Today she is named Charlotte Faviano; before converting, her surname was Antonsen.