Former MP Katja Laurila sentenced to conditional imprisonment for stabbing fiancé in Raahe
Oulu District Court has sentenced the Left Alliance's former long-serving MP to 3.5 months' conditional imprisonment. The sentence concerns aggravated injury and assault.
Oulu District Court sentenced Laurila to 3.5 months' conditional imprisonment
According to Ilta-Sanomat, Oulu District Court has sentenced Katja Laurila (formerly Hänninen), 46, the Left Alliance's long-serving former MP, to 3.5 months' conditional imprisonment for aggravated injury and assault. The ruling was delivered on Tuesday.
The first incident occurred in Raahe in April 2025, when Laurila struck her fiancé in the thigh with a knife. The man's thigh sustained a stab wound a couple of centimetres long, which has since healed.
The second incident occurred at the end of November 2025. Laurila struck the man three times in the head and upper body with her hand, causing him pain. The incident was recorded on video, which was used as evidence in the court proceedings. In the video, filmed in the living room, Laurila can be seen standing in front of the man sitting in an armchair, reproaching him and then attacking him.
In court, Laurila argued that the incidents had been agreed upon with the man and demanded that the sentence be dismissed. The district court did not accept this basis and considered conditional imprisonment a justified sanction.
Laurila's fiancé also received a sentence: the district court ordered the man to pay 45 days' fines for assault, as he had struck Laurila in the face in Raahe in August 2025.
Laurila lost her seat in parliament in the spring 2023 elections after serving as an MP for over eight years. She also served for just over two years as second vice-chair of the Left Alliance's parliamentary group. In Raahe, Laurila began as a city councillor in 2009.
At the end of July last year she requested to resign from Raahe's municipal board and from all her positions of trust mid-term, citing "personal reasons". Criminal charges had been brought only a few weeks earlier, in June. The city council accepted her resignation.
Oulu District Court's ruling is not final, and an appeal can be made to Rovaniemi Court of Appeal.
Source: Ilta-Sanomat