The Helsinki District Court awarded custody of an 8-year-old child to the mother only a few weeks before the child's father allegedly tried to kill the child with gas in Pyhtää. The case is now being handled as a serious criminal suspicion linked to a recent custody dispute.

According to HS, the court decision came before the incident in Pyhtää. The charge concerns a man who allegedly attempted to murder his own child with gas, and the custody matter had just been resolved in the mother's favor.