Reijo Hammar
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Reijo Juhani Hammar is one of the most infamous criminals in Finland. He was named as a "Finland's most dangerous prisoner".
Hammar brutally murdered the businessman Antti Johannes Eljaala on the Viking Sally ferry in July 1986. The men were on their way from Turku to Stockholm. Hammar was tried for one count of murder and sentenced to life in prison.
Hammar escaped the Turku prison in July 1988 with fellow prisoners Petteri Tenhunen and Martti Orajärvi. Hammar murdered Tenhunen in Lapland, but together with Orajärvi he went on to make several bank robberies.
The fugitives were later caught in Stockholm and returned to Finland. The President Tarja Halonen pardoned Hammar in December 2004.
Nowadays Reijo Hammar goes under name Andreas Hammar.
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