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The Cult Dossier · No. 174 · Shared Psychosis / Mandated Killing
The Eriksson Twins
Ursula and Sabina Eriksson; the M6 incident; the Motorway Cops footage
2008 · Keele and Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England; the sisters were Swedish
XVII. SHARED PSYCHOSIS AND THE MANDATE TO KILL
None. No doctrine of any kind was ever identified in this case.
### Who led it
### What it worshipped and taught
### Who was in it
### How it ended, or where it stands
### The dead
### Of note
### Its timeline
- 17 MAY 2008 SHORTLY AFTER 1PM, AT KEELE SERVICES ON THE M6, BOTH WOMEN RUN INTO LIVE MOTORWAY TRAFFIC. Ursula is struck by an articulated lorry and Sabina by a car. BOTH SURVIVE; Ursula's legs are badly injured. Officers who restrain Sabina are attacked by her. The entire sequence is on film.
- 17-19 MAY 2008 Sabina is held in police custody in Stoke-on-Trent. She is described as calm and cooperative, though odd.
- 19 MAY 2008 AT THE MAGISTRATES' COURT SHE PLEADS GUILTY TO TRESPASS ON THE MOTORWAY AND TO ASSAULTING A POLICE OFFICER. SHE IS SENTENCED TO ONE DAY, WHICH SHE HAS ALREADY SERVED, AND WALKS FREE. No psychiatric assessment had detained her.
- 19 MAY 2008 THAT SAME EVENING, AROUND 7PM, she is seen wandering in Fenton by GLENN HOLLINSHEAD, who takes her home, feeds her and lets her stay the night.
- 20 MAY 2008 AT ABOUT 7.40PM THE FOLLOWING EVENING SHE STABS HIM WITH A KITCHEN KNIFE AND HE DIES. Reports of the number of wounds differ between four and five and this file does not pick one. She flees, injuring herself with a hammer and jumping from a bridge.
- 6 JUNE 2008 Arrested in hospital.
- 11 SEPTEMBER 2008 Discharged into custody and charged with murder.
- 2 SEPTEMBER 2009 AT NOTTINGHAM CROWN COURT SHE PLEADS GUILTY TO MANSLAUGHTER ON THE GROUND OF DIMINISHED RESPONSIBILITY. The plea is accepted. The defence advances FOLIE A DEUX, casting Sabina as the secondary and her twin as the primary; the court also hears evidence of a rare disorder involving voices, described elsewhere as an ACUTE POLYMORPHIC PSYCHOTIC DISORDER.
- 26 NOVEMBER 2009 MR JUSTICE SAUNDERS SENTENCES HER TO FIVE YEARS, saying openly that the sentence will seem inadequate to Hollinshead's family.
- SEPTEMBER 2008 onward URSULA IS NEVER CHARGED WITH ANYTHING. She was discharged from hospital and left the country.
### Its people
### Sabina Eriksson
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Convicted of the manslaughter of Glenn Hollinshead · born 1967 · active 2008–2009
Before the law. Manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility; five years, November 2009. Sentence long since served.
Where things stand. NO CLAIM IS MADE HERE ABOUT WHERE SHE IS NOW. She served her sentence and nothing consulted establishes her circumstances since. THE CASE CONTRADICTS ENTRY 171 AND IS KEPT FOR THAT REASON: she was separated from her twin on the hard shoulder on 17 May and killed a man three days later. Separation did not resolve the secondary's state; on the available record it preceded the worst of it.
- 17 MAY 2008 Runs into M6 traffic at Keele services and is struck by a car; attacks the officers who restrain her.
- 19 MAY 2008 Released by the magistrates. Meets Glenn Hollinshead at about 7pm and stays the night at his house.
- 20 MAY 2008 Kills him with a kitchen knife, then flees and injures herself.
- 6 JUNE 2008
- 11 SEPTEMBER 2008 Charged with murder.
- 2 SEPTEMBER 2009 PLEADS GUILTY TO MANSLAUGHTER ON THE GROUND OF DIMINISHED RESPONSIBILITY at Nottingham Crown Court. The defence advances folie à deux, casting her as the secondary and her twin as the primary.
- 26 NOVEMBER 2009 Sentenced to five years by Mr Justice Saunders.
Checked 2026-09-06 · living: health details are kept at home
### Ursula Eriksson
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Named by the defence as the primary; never charged with anything · born 1967 · active 2008
Before the law. NONE. SHE HAS NEVER BEEN CHARGED WITH ANY OFFENCE ARISING FROM THESE EVENTS.
Where things stand. THIS FILE MAKES NO CLAIM ABOUT HER CURRENT WHEREABOUTS OR CONDITION, AND THAT IS DELIBERATE. Her present location is published elsewhere; The defence named Ursula as the primary and it worked, and the person so named was THE ONE PERSON IN THE CASE WHOSE MIND WAS NEVER PUT BEFORE A COURT. She was not assessed to the depth her sister was, was not represented, and had no opportunity to contest it. That is not a finding. It is an argument that happened to be untestable.
- 17 MAY 2008 Struck by an articulated lorry on the M6 and seriously injured.
- 17 MAY – SEPTEMBER 2008
- SEPTEMBER 2008 Discharged. She leaves the country.
- 2 SEPTEMBER 2009 AT HER SISTER'S PLEA HEARING, THE DEFENCE NAMES HER AS THE PRIMARY IN A FOLIE À DEUX — an account of her mind advanced in a court she was not a party to, could not answer in, and was never examined for.
Checked 2026-09-06 · living: health details are kept at home
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