Madness In The Fast Lane

In 2008, BBC cameras filmed two Swedish sisters throwing themselves into traffic on the M6. When it was shown on BBC One, nearly 7 million viewers were glued to their screens, and millions more watched it later on YouTube.

The footage was shocking. One previewer wrote “On no account miss this documentary. It opens with what is perhaps the most extraordinary footage I’ve seen on TV”.

But this amazing footage was only part of an even more incredible story, one which could not be told at the time for legal reasons.

Now, two years later, this documentary reveals the full story of the hours just before the cameras captured that motorway footage, and the even more chilling story of what happened over next 72 hours, which left one of the sisters fleeing the scene of a crime, after she had stabbed a man through the chest.

Those who were at the centre of this fascinating legal case, including the police and Crown prosecution service, reveal the complex issues involved in both bringing charges and taking this disturbing case to trial.

A leading criminal psychiatrist, Dr. Nigel Eastman, explains the difficulties the judicial system has in achieving justice and deciding punishment when dealing with mental illness.

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  • name

    wow how come that bitch cant die?

  • The Dead Pony

    Isn’t it wonderful how the officers applied NONE of their training to this situation…We’d be better off with Les Andrews trying to keep women from doing stupid things.

  • ckora

    All clear and well with the succubus. But where’s Ursula’s side of the story?

  • Kiwichik

    As anyone thought that she was mentally ill and can hear voices that are telling her to do things. The way she was trying to silence them was to try and kill themselves and smash their heads in to finally get some peace?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=539080317 David Mccann

    Where is Sabina Eriksson?
    Before I proceed with Sabrina the Secret Super Strength Soldier, I like to point out something is not quite right about her sentence. I’ve been to prison and know how dates in custody are worked out.  It’s been widely publicised that Sabrina was to be released mid 2011, this appears to have never happened, and this looks like a case of silence of the lambs.
    The programme mentioned an anomaly in our legal system, which is that if someone is “insane” at the time when they committed the crime, but sane when they are tried for it, they have to receive a fixed-term sentence, not an indefinite sentence or commitment to a secure hospital. Which means that there is no way to insist on Sabrina seeing a mental health professional after she is released next year, or of keeping her inside if she appears to be a danger to the public.
    Sabina was arrested on the 20th of May 2008 for murder of Glen Hollinshead, she was charged and held on remand in prison until she was sentenced on the 1st September 2009.
    Let’s allow for an error of judgement, due to weekends and leap years etc. so I am going permit 3 days either way, i.e. she was sentenced on the 1st September, so the dates could be from the 29th, 30, 31st August – and the 2nd, 3rd, 4th September.
    This means from the 20th May 2008 until 1st September 2009 that equates to 1 year 3 months and 1 day.
    She was sentenced to 5 years, – all sentences in excess of 4 years, are entitled to a 50% reduction in sentence, and can be paroled on licence.
    If you fail to get parole, then after 12 months from the last rejection, you are reassessed for parole, – however if you have less than 13 months remaining of your sentence, then you are not entitled for parole.
    And this could be the case with Sabina, for she was not [or should I say it's not been announced] released last year mid 2011.
    In fact there has been an error, and it must be a deliberate one, for Sabrina was in fact eligible for parole on the 19th November 2010. 
    If you calculate from the 20th of May 2008 to 19th November that equates to a two and a half years spent in custody.
    1 year = 365 days – 5 years = 1825 days
    50% Reduction in sentence = 912.5 days
    From 20th May 2008 until 1st September 2009 = 468 days – which means she had 444 days left to serve before she was eligible for parole on licence.
    1st September 2009 to 1st September 2010 = 365 days – with 79 days remaining.
    1st September 2010 to 19th November 2010 = 79 days and her correct and “legal” eligible date for parole.
    So if she was not released on that date, – and not the widely and incorrect time period of mid-2011, then she couldn’t have been granted parole.
    Which means she would have had to have waited another year for the second chance for her parole, but because she has already served 3 years 9 months and 16 days, she missed out because of the 13 months remaining clause.
    The 20th May 2012 will be the 4th year Sabina has been in custody, and means she could be held until 20th May 2013, meaning she would have done the whole 5 year sentence, which is virtually unheard of, and the only way someone doesn’t qualify for parole, means you must have been getting into a lot of trouble in the prison to keep losing so much remission, it’s quite difficult to lose all your remission, as everyone is entitled to parole, they might not get, but in Sabina’s case the judge didn’t ‘recommend’ a minimum term, she got 5 years for pleading gulity due to being ‘insane’ at the time of the offence.
    So she doesn’t come into the same category as someone who may have got 5 years for stabbing someone, but had pleaded not gulity, and was found guilty, as this person most probably didn’t show remorse due to their not guilty plea, – and is continuing inside prison to maintain their innocence, so therefore continuing not to show remorse, and would very much likely lose their chance for parole. – Yet even then, they’d likely find they would have got out on the second application for parole, meaning they would have served around 3 years 9 months as opposed to 5 years.
    So this is why I ask, where the hell is Sabina?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=539080317 David Mccann

    Where is Sabina Eriksson? Here’s the most update info on Sabina Eriksson, and a continuation of my comment below:
    http://12160.info/profiles/blogs/sabina-erikson

  • David Cann

    A Madness Shared by Two is the true story that exposes the police cover-up
    involved in the Sabina and Ursula Eriksson case and the murder of Glenn
    Hollinshead – To be released on the 28 October 2012 in eBook
    and paperback

    A Madness Shared by
    Two, is not only the true untold
    story about the lives of Sabina and Ursula Eriksson, alongside the murder of
    Glenn Hollinshead, based on a critique re-examination of the BBC’s Madness
    in the Fast Lane documentary that had 7 million viewers [with a conservative estimate of around a further 15
    million people having since watched this film via the internet and on websites
    such as YouTube],glued
    to their TV screens watching the twin sisters propelling themselves into the fast lane of the oncoming traffic on the
    UK’s-M6 motorway, as Ursula manages to throw herself under the wheels of a 40ft
    articulated lorry travelling at 60mph, that seems to swallow her up and spit
    her lifeless looking body back out of its rear end. It is also the result of a thorough
    investigation into what might have really happened on those fateful days that
    led up to this tragic slaying of an innocent man. We challenge the “Official Storyline” and
    expose what really occurred just hours before M6 dash, for it is here for the
    first time we expose the Eriksson sisters were “arrested” under the Mental
    Health Act, though this vital caught on film evidence was edited out of the
    original BBC films. This will come as a
    great surprise to many people who questioned; ‘…how was it possible Sabina could have
    been released from hospital after only five hours’ following their ‘suicide
    attempt’ on the M6? We also reveal that the coroner’s report
    shows that the injuries inflicted on Glenn, was done so by ‘two’ weapons, it’s
    always been believed “Sabina” used one, and that it’s highly likely there were
    more than one person who killed him and that Sabina could be totally
    innocent. Yet this obvious evidence
    seems to have been brushed under the carpet, or at the very least, it was never
    challenged. We explain how these twins
    were very likely embroiled in some kind of major drugs smuggling ring and that
    they had been under “Obbo” [police observation] prior to the M6 incident and
    was probably so for quite some period of time.
    As a result of our findings, legal action is now being sought and
    brought against the police and other related authoritative bodies by the
    Hollinshead family.

    http://extracts.wix.com/amadnesssharedbytwo#!about/cadp