Ior Bock, tour guide, actor, colourful folklorist, stabbed to death on Saturday

Two personal assistants held over killing

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Ior Bock, an eccentric media personality who gained notoriety through his belief that his family blood-line was linked to events of ancient Finnish mythology, died at the age of 68 on Saturday.
      Bock was stabbed to death at his home in Helsinki. Two foreign men, aged 19 and 28, are being held on suspicion of the killing.
      The two men, who lived in the same apartment with Bock, were his personal assistants. Bock required assistance because he had been paralysed in a previous knife attack in 1999.
     
Police, who are piecing together the events leading up to the killing, say that some kind of argument had taken place before the stabbing, but they could not say on Sunday evening what the roles of the two men were, or the reason for the disagreements.
      The suspects had lived in Finland for about two years, and police say that one of them called the emergency services after the stabbing.
      Police have not yet given the names or nationalities of the two. Neither of them has a criminal record.
     
     
We will have more on the colourful life of Ior Bock in our weekly section on Tuesday.


Links:
  Ior Bock (Wikipedia)
  Bock Saga (in English and German)

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