A teen who was fascinated by ISIS killings was sentenced to nine years in prison by a court in Denmark Monday for stabbing her mother to death.
A court in Hjørring was told that Lisa Borch, then 15, killed her mother, Tine Rømer Holtegaard, with the help of her 29-year-old Iraqi boyfriend, Bakhtiar Mohammed Abdullah, in Kvissel, northern Jutland, in October 2014, The Local reported.
Abdullah — Borch's co-defendant in the trial — received 13 years in prison. He will also be deported from Denmark, according to Ekstra Bladet. The couple reportedly met at a refugee center, the Daily Telegraph said.
During the trial, it was revealed that Borch had become radicalized and viewed jihadi propaganda online, and had been watching videos of beheadings with Abdullah prior to the killing.
Prosecutors alleged that she planned to travel to Syria to fight alongside ISIS, according to the Telegraph.
Borch's Instagram account still remains live.
Holtegaard was a painter who lived in a rural farmhouse with her husband, Jens, and her two daughters, Bild reported.
The court was told she was stabbed 20 times as she slept, and that Borch herself called the police, saying "please come here, blood is everywhere" and claiming "a white man" was running from her home, The Local said.
When law enforcement arrived, they found Borch calmly watching videos on her phone. The court heard that she pointed upstairs without pausing from what she was watching when they asked where her mother was, the Daily Telegraph reported. They later found she had spent the evening watching footage of ISIS executions.
Speaking to Denmark's BT newspaper, Jens Holtegaard — Borch's stepfather and Tine's husband — said: "There is no doubt that she was in very bad company when she began to be with him. He has affected her negatively. It was when she was with him, that she began to take an interest in ISIS. He has somehow radicalized her, and I think that's where you have to find a large part of the explanation of why we are where we are today."
Holtegaard added that he was worried that Borch's time in prison would serve to radicalize her further: "It does not matter if she had been given 16 years in prison. We thought it quite obvious that she should get some help, because she so clearly needs it. I am truly worried about how she is when she comes out."
During the trial it emerged that Bloch's relationship with Abdullah and frequent rows with her mother had led to her twin sister moving out of the house. It also emerged that Bloch had shown her sister the knife used to kill their mother, something which the sister had dismissed as a joke, the Telegraph reported.