Chainsaw death for refusal to read Kampusch book

A Norwegian man has gone on trial for shooting his mother to death and cutting her body into "bite-sized" cubes - because she refused to read a bestselling book about Austrian kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch.

A court in Oslo heard yesterday (Mon) that the 40-year-old man went berserk when she declined his request to read "Girl in the Cellar" written by British journalist Allan Hall.

"It's a great read," the defendant told his mother, who replied: "No, not my cup of tea."

So he shot her then hacked her up into small pieces with a chain saw.

The accused, who was described by prosecutors as "severely psychotic," believed that Natascha Kampusch - held for over eight years by kidnapper Wolfgang Priklopil in Strasshof near Vienna - was his daughter after reading the book first published in 2006.

Prosecutors have asked for him to be held indefinitely in a secure mental institution.

Allan Hall, who wrote the book, told the Austrian Times: "I always thought the book was a killer read! It's a shame his mother didn't give it a go."

From: http://austriantimes.at/image/12709/news/Panorama/2010-02-15/20668/Chainsaw_death_for_refusal_to_read_Kampusch_book