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Jamie Lee Arrow (right) with her father Isakin Drabbad(Image: Investigation Discover)

Many of us go through a rebellious phase during our teens, but Jamie Lee Arrow has a better excuse than most people. At the age of just nine, Jamie learned that her father had killed and eaten his girlfriend.

Jamie’s father, Isakin Drabbad, had split from her mum when she was very young. But she remained in contact with her dad and had grown very fond of his new girlfriend, Helle Christensen, who became like a second mother to her. However Helle and Isakin had a toxic, often violent relationship – and as a child Jamie witnessed several disturbing confrontations between them.

Then on one fateful day, Helle put a plate of food in front of Jamie and told her: “Enjoy your meal… this is the last time I’ll ever cook for you, because Isakin is going to kill me.”

Helle’s words turned out to be horribly true. In November 2010, Drabbad – a self-styled Satanist – slashed his girlfriend’s throat before decapitating her and eating part of her body. In a harrowing new interview with LadBible, Jamie told how her mum tried to prevent her from learning the truth about her father, saying: “My life as I knew it didn’t exist anymore.”

“I wasn’t allowed to watch TV,” Jamie added. “I wasn’t allowed to listen to the radio, I wasn’t allowed to go to shops. I wasn’t allowed to go to school for a month. They kept the curtains down because neighbours passing by tried to peek in.”

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Drabbad claimed to be a devil-worshipper(Image: Investigation Discover)

As Drabbad’s trial progressed, his case became increasingly notorious. From newspaper reports, the Swedish public learned how after murdering Helle, Drabbad used the same knife to cut her clothes off. He then attempted to have sex with her corpse.

Using a knife, saw, and axe, the killer then cut Helle’s head from her body. He also hacked off several pieces of flesh from her limbs, which he fried with a garnish of cannabis leaves. He also reportedly had plans to eat Helle’s head.

Jamie told how her mother tried to protect her from learning the truth about Drabbad’s crimes, recalling: “One day my mum actually did take me to the shop…and all of a sudden I saw my dad’s face all across, like, Sweden’s biggest newspaper.”

At the time, she had never seen the word “cannibal” before. While her mum tried to insulate Jamie from the full, horrible truth about her dad’s crime, as soon as she got access to a computer the curious girl ran an internet search to discover what the word “cannibal” meant.

The truth horrified her. She recalled: “I had to stop because it was too brutal and disgusting. I just couldn’t accept that my dad would have anything to do with that word.”

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Drabbad could well be free in the next few years(Image: Investigation Discover)

Even when he was convicted of murder and incarcerated in a secure mental institution, Drabbad continued to make the headlines. While at Karsudden Regional Hospital, he formed a relationship with another inmate, so-called “Vampire killer” Michelle Gustafsson.

Drabbad also launched a blog, answering the public’s questions about his crimes. “Most people say at some point in their life that they would never take someone else’s life, but have you done it it’s not a big deal anymore,” he wrote on one.

In a YouTube video, the killer explained his hatred of humanity, saying: “I see myself as anti-human. There’s nothing about humans that I like. The only people in history who have any sense as I see it are the Vikings, the Spartans and people like that.”

Drabbad also launched an online store, selling home-made voodoo dolls, signed in his own blood with the slogan “They call me Skara Cannibal.”

When, as a teenager, Jamie plucked up the courage to visit her father in prison, Drabbad also gave her one of those voodoo dolls, telling her it would kill the children that had been bullying her at school.

She explains that she had been going through a tough time at school, thanks to her dad’s notoriety, saying: “In school, I was bullied because of my dad. People called me ‘the cannibal’s daughter.’

“That’s the thing everyone just knew me as, no one knew me as Jamie. I was just the cannibal’s daughter.”

Jamie’s anger and frustration took her into a dark place. She went on: “I dropped out when I was 14 and started hanging out with the wrong crowd and got into drugs …it got really bad and I was a full-on addict at 15.”

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Isakin Drabbad murdered and ate his girlfriend in 2010(Image: Investigation Discover)

Together with what she calls “brainwashing” from her dad during her prison visits, Jamie became deeply troubled. However, Drabbad eventually cut off all contact with his daughter. She told People magazine: “We had some really long and deep conversations, and I did let him know that I love him and I forgive him. But then something happened. He sent me a long, twisted, sick text message where he basically threatened me and my family if I ever reached out to him again.”

The text hurt her deeply. But she is also relieved. “It gave me the closure I needed. It was like I needed that to understand how sick it all is.”

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Now, Jamie says, her mission in life is to make sure that her own children are never exposed to the horror she witnessed as a child: “I never want them to be introduced to any kind of darkness,” she says.