Isakin Drabbad

Isakin Daniel Drabbad (born Jimmy Daniel Isaksson, later named Isakin Jonsson; 14 October 1978), also known as the Skara Cannibal (Skarakannibalen), is a Swedish convicted murderer.

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.

Jonsson met Helle Christensen 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 criminal convictions.

They had limited contacts with the labor market.

Christensen had five children, all living with their fathers.

In November 2010 in Skara, he murdered his girlfriend Helle Christensen and ate parts of her body.

He was committed to a mental health institution.

During his time at the institution, Drabbad has sparked several controversies that created headlines both in Sweden and internationally.

When Jonsson committed the murder in 2010, he had a nine-year-old daughter.

The daughter, Jamie-Lee, later wrote the book Skarakannibalens Dotter ("The Cannibal's Daughter") about her upbringing.

Christensen and 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 Jonsson's mother.

The apartment was sparsely furnished and contact was made with the social service in Skara about grants for home equipment.

Jonsson and Christensen had plans to live as cohabitants in the future and possibly start a tattoo and piercing shop in the apartment.

Christensen's sister told the media that Jonsson had a violent temper, that she often had to go and pick up her sister after they argued.

Christensen 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 Christensen's diary, which gave a different picture of the boyfriend.

It was written shortly before the murder and describes how scared Christensen was, but that she did not dare to tell her loved ones.

She wrote that Jonsson was 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 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.

Jonsson murdered Christensen 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.

Jonsson bought four beers and Jägermeister at Systembolaget and Christensen bought food at the local Ica store Munken.

They were alone in the apartment until the murder, which happened between 17:00 and 19:00.

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, Drabbad 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 Drabbad had been together with carers inside Karsudden Hospital in Katrineholm.

Drabbad was denied furlough to marry the woman, who resigned and was placed under a restraining order as she was considered a security risk.

Drabbad is still being cared for in forensic psychiatric care, but since 2020 is registered at an address in Katrineholm.