Isakin Drabbad: Daughter recalls last conversation before devil-loving cannibal dad killed step-mum, ate her
WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT
A woman who endured one of the most horrific childhoods imaginable has spoken out about growing up with a father who killed and ate her stepmother after a blazing domestic confrontation.
Jamie-Lee Arrow is the daughter of the most notorious murderer in Sweden's modern history, Isakin Drabbad, nicknamed the 'Skara Cannibal'.
Drabbad, a self-proclaimed Satan worshipper, had been having visions of demons and evil spirits in the lead up to a fight with his girlfriend, Helle Christensen, which ultimately ended in her murder.
In November 2010, Drabbad, now 46, killed Ms Christensen, 40, by cutting her throat, before decapitating her and slicing flesh from her body after the ongoing violent argument that lasted nearly 24 hours.
In scenes reminiscent of a Stephen King novel, the body parts were cooked in salt and cannabis leaves, before Drabbad ate the pieces.
Ms Arrow relayed the final conversation she had with her stepmother as they sat together for a meal prior to the killing.
'Enjoy your meal because this is the last time I will cook for you ... because Isakin is going to kill me,' Ms Christensen said to Ms Arrow.
Drabbad was arrested and confessed to the murder and cannibalism, before he was remanded to a psychiatric facility in 2011.
The Sun
newspaper recently secured an interview with Ms Arrow who has spent nearly 15 years trying to rationalise the horrendous situation she found herself in as a nine-year-old, and the memories of the lead up to one of history's most gruesome acts.
Ms Arrow said her time with her father was like stepping into a 'horror movie' after her parents split and she moved between the two residences in a shared custody arrangement.
'He often talked about the devil, demons and evil spirits, and when I was little, he liked to introduce me to the other side,' Ms Arrow recalled.
'We would lay in the dark on the bed and he would go, 'Do you see the faces on the wall, can you see them?' Then he would say it so much I would actually start seeing them.'
After all the trauma of her childhood Ms Arrow, now 23, wrestled with addiction and left school at 15, but through a determined mindset and self-preservation, she has now turned her life around and is set to marry her long term partner while raising her two children.
'Just because your childhood sucked doesn't mean your entire life has to. We have the power over our own lives and we can create something beautiful even if we came from something ugly,' Ms Arrow told The Sun.
'I want people to understand the darkness I came from and that I actually managed to get myself out from under it. I still struggle with feeling like I am my own person and that my dad has got nothing to do with who I am.'
A gifted motivational speaker, Ms Arrow, featured in the TV documentary Evil Lives Here: The Killer Speaks, where she spoke to her father in a chilling interaction between the two.
'Do you know how much you have to love someone to still want to see the person who is scaring you to death?' she told Drabbad.
'I think it's extremely difficult to have me in your life. You can only see heaven from hell ... I look at you from hell. And I'm sorry,' Drabbad replied.
Isakin Drabbad is no longer held within the psychiatric institution and after serving neary 15 years in jail is hoping to one day be granted parole.
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