Judgments | A man got rid of the disappearance of cannabis – He abused his roommate with a Buddha statue

Man assaulted two women in a private apartment in Helsinki in the summer of 2021.

A homeless man stayed in the apartment of two women. The most serious of the abuses happened in July, when in addition to the trio, their neighbors were also in the apartment.

The party had smoked cannabis. When the man later couldn’t find his drugs, he became threatening, paranoid and aggressive, according to another woman.

The man also began to accuse the roommates’ neighbor of stealing marijuana, causing the neighbor to leave the place in fear.

Then the man decided to lift up the couch where one of the women was lying. The woman fell to the floor because of the man’s actions.

After that, the man threw a stone Buddha statue against the face of the woman who fell to the ground. The woman estimated that the statue weighed at least a kilo. According to the woman’s estimate, the man threw the statue from a distance of about half a meter.

The man threw the coffee table and other objects at the woman. In court, the woman said that she was mentally broken by what happened.

Previously in June, the man had abused his other roommate by grabbing him by the throat and squeezing him hard.

The woman said that the man abused her and another roommate repeatedly. Photos of the traces of both beatings had been taken as evidence.

The man denied the charges. However, the court found the victims’ accounts credible.

A man had a previous criminal history and the assaults took place during the probationary period of a previous prison sentence.

The Helsinki district court sentenced a man born in 1998 to 20 days of unconditional imprisonment for two assaults. In the sentence, the unconditional prison sentence he received just before was taken into account as degrading.

The man appealed his sentence to the Court of Appeal. The Helsinki Court of Appeal did not change the district court’s verdict.