Not exactly 'read' but I saw a programme on TV a couple of nights ago about a couple of blonde Swedish twins who went a bit bonkers in the traffic on the motorway with one of them murdering a good samaritan after being released from hospital.
Timeline and video of events below...
FRIDAY, MAY 16, 2008
2am - Eriksson, pictured, leaves her County Cork home with twin sister, Ursula.
SATURDAY, MAY 17
8:30am - Eriksson and her sister go to St Anne Police Station, in Liverpool, to report concerns over their children.
Midday - They board a National Express coach to Victoria Station, in London.
1pm - The coach stops at Keele Services to change drivers. It was not a scheduled comfort-break stop.
3.20pm - Police called to M6, just north of Keele Services.
VIDEO OF WHAT HAPPENED NEXT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqEIRxztJZI&feature=player_embedded#!
Ursula has run onto the carriageway in front of a lorry. Eriksson runs in front of a silver Volkswagen Polo car and is knocked into the air.
Eriksson then regains consciousness, runs across the carriageway and punches a female police officer as she tries to stop her and then runs off. She is arrested and taken to the Northern Area Custody facility, at Etruria.
MONDAY, MAY 19
Eriksson is charged with assaulting a police officer and trespassing onto a motorway. She appears before North Staffordshire magistrates at Fenton, is sentenced to one-day custody and released.
7pm - Eriksson strikes up a conversation with Glenn Hollinshead and his friend Peter Molloy in Christchurch Road, Fenton, after they leave the Royal Oak pub. They all go to Mr Hollinshead's home in Duke Street.
11.40pm - Mr Molloy leaves the property.
TUESDAY, MAY 20
Lunchtime: Mr Hollinshead phones brother, Paul, who lives in Blurton and works at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire, and tells him about Eriksson and her sister.
He asks him if he can find out what ward Ursula is on in the hospital.
7.40pm - Mr Hollinshead goes outside and asks neighbour, Frank Booth, for some tea bags.
Mr Booth is washing his minibus and asks Mr Hollinshead to wait until he has finished.
Mr Hollinshead goes back into the house.
But 74 seconds later Mr Hollinshead comes back out of the house, saying: "she's stabbed me".
7.49pm - Paramedics on their way to a reported stabbing in Duke Street see Eriksson standing on an island between two carriageways near Heron Cross roundabout off the A50. She is hitting herself on the head with a large hammer.
8pm - Motorist Joshua Grattage stops his car and takes the hammer off Eriksson.
When Eriksson sees the paramedics she runs towards the roundabout over the A50, followed by ambulance officers. She climbs the railings and jumps down to the A50.
The paramedics are told to go to the stabbing incident in Duke Street.
8.05pm - Police arrive at Duke Street to find Mr Hollinshead's body in an alleyway.
FRIDAY, JUNE 6
Eriksson is arrested while still a patient at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
Eriksson leaves hospital and is taken straight to the Northern Area Custody suite, in Etruria.
7.43pm - Eriksson is charged with murdering Mr Hollinshead
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
Eriksson is back at North Staffordshire Magistrates charged with murder.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2009
Eriksson's trial starts at Nottingham Crown Court.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2009
Eriksson admits manslaughter with diminished responsibility.
