"Inspired" by ISIL Beheadings, Danish Teen Stabs Her Mother to Death

Lisa Borch, a 15-year-old teenager from Kvissel, Denmark stabbed her mother to death because she didn’t want Lisa marrying her boyfriend Bakhtiar Mohammed Abdullah, a migrant from Iraq.

Borch’s mother, 40-year old Tina Romer Holtegaard was murdered in her own house on October 8, 2014. Her daughter was only 15-year old at that time and obsessed with watching ISIL beheading videos.

Abdullah, Lisa’s 29-year old boyfriend, was arrested the next day. According to a prosecutor, the couple wanted to get married, but Lisa’s mother was against it, so the two plotted to kill her, Danish newspaper Ekstrabladet reported.

Abdullah initially pleaded guilty, but then said he was innocent. Prosecutors, however, said there was evidence against him, such as his fingerprints in the house and his shirt had the traces of the murdered woman’s blood, Ekstrabladet said.

On Monday, Borch received 9 years in prison, while Abdullah – 13 years in prison and then the eventual deportation out of Denmark. Aksel Groth, Borch’s lawyer, said the girl was given a pretty lenient punishment because she was only 15 at the time of the incident, the Danish newspaper said.

Borch met Abdullah near a refugee camp, where he was living after coming to Denmark from Iraq. Before Abdullah, Borch used to date an unknown man from Syria, who was an ISIL follower. The two broke up when the man decided to move to Sweden, but the girl kept up her interest in ISIL, Daily Mail said.

Before killing her mother, Borch became radicalized and spent hours watching ISIL videos. The girl dreamt about joining and fighting on the side of ISIL in the Middle East.