Double murder convict Stig Millehaugen (53), who was on the run for one week last year, has secretly written his story in book form.
The book has been written by Millehaugen himself and is scheduled to be published already this spring – about a year after he gained the attention of the whole of Norway during an intense week in June last year.
Millehaugen had escaped during what was supposed to be a six-hour leave from the prison in Trondheim. The 53-year-old sentenced to custody, who has previously escaped from prison three times, managed to get on a flight from Trondheim Airport Værnes to Oslo Airport Gardermoen.
Read more about Millehaugen’s escape attempt here.
After a week’s manhunt, he was arrested by the police – close to Østmarkseteren and Ulsrudvannet in Oslo – after having stayed outdoors.
Back behind the walls, the man who has been referred to several times as “Norway’s most dangerous” has spent his time on something completely different:
He has secretly written a book. It is the publisher Press that publishes the book, which has not been on any publication lists.
The publisher does not want to say anything about the publication and the book’s content, but according to VG’s information, Millehaugen tells his story in the book.
VG’s crime expert and commentator Øystein Milli believes it is an exciting book publication.
– I am excited about what Millehaugen writes about his own crime and especially about whether there will be confessions. It is special that an inmate writes himself, the convicts I know have had a ghostwriter, says Milli.
“Norway’s most dangerous”
About the characteristic “Norway’s most dangerous man”, Milli says this:
– A number of things have happened after he was referred to as such, including the 22 July terror, but there is no doubt that the two murders he has been convicted of make him one of the most dangerous, says Milli.
Millehaugen has been in prison virtually his entire adult life after being convicted of car theft, burglary and armed robbery. Just before Christmas 1992, Millehaugen shot and killed a prison officer in Sarpsborg prison in connection with his escape.
In 2012, he was sentenced to 21 years in prison, the law’s most severe sentence, for the premeditated murder of Young Guns leader Mohammad “Jeddi” Javed. The minimum term was set at ten years. He has always denied criminal guilt.
He has spent the last ten years in Trondheim prison.
Millehaugen’s defender Morten Furuholmen at the law firm Furuholmen Dietrichson does not want to comment on the book publication or say anything about the content of the book.
Wrote chronicle about evil
In 2018, Millehaugen wrote a chronicle in Aftenposten about evil – where he wrote, among other things, that he read a lot and referred to a number of books. Here he also went against the designation “Norway’s most dangerous man” – which several media have referred to him as since 1993.
– A description I disagree with, but men convicted of robbery and murder are often given such labels. “Dangerous men” can often be perceived as “evil”. That is far from the truth, he wrote in the chronicle.
