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The 21-year-old is being convicted, among other things, of attempted murder, Aftonbladet writes.
According to the prosecutor, the man in the outside area moved for several months in search of people to attack. The attacks took place from the end of February 2019 until the end of September of the same year.
One of the victims, a woman in her 80s, was attacked with a hammer and suffered injuries so severe that she ended up in a coma for two weeks. The woman, who must have been completely unknown to the young man, was found unconscious on the edge of a beach in the “Kärleksudden” area in Sollentuna on February 26 of last year.
In the lawsuit, the prosecutor wrote that the woman’s injuries were life-threatening.
Aftonbladet writes that the man is also convicted, among other things, of hitting a man in his 80s on the back of the head with a hammer in the same area.
On the research It turned out that the 21-year-old wrote online comments expressing his admiration for American serial killer Ted Bundy. In a conversation, the man also described the attack on the older woman.
The young man had previously undergone a so-called section 7 investigation, after the section on special personal investigation in criminal cases, which was previously called a small mental examination. It showed that the man may have had a serious mental disorder at the time of the events.
Then however, a large forensic psychiatric examination showed that the man was not suffering from a serious mental disorder when he committed the crimes, claims the local newspaper Mitt I. The district court accepted that assessment and therefore did not convict the man for psychiatric care. forensic.
The 21-year-old is now convicted, in addition to attempted murder, also for serious abuse, preparation for serious abuse, illegal threats, attempted robbery, and child pornography offenses, after police found a child pornographic image on his computer. in a housing register.
In the midst of writing that The total value of the penalty for the crime as assessed by the district court was 15 years in prison. But due to the man’s age and the fact that he provided information that has been of great importance to the investigation, the sentence is set at eight years in prison.
We had expected a different course from the assassination attempt, but we knew we had a bit of an uphill run there. On the other hand, we are satisfied that there has been a substantial penalty for your participation in the investigation, otherwise the evidence would not have even been processed. Overall, we are relatively satisfied with the verdict, 21-year-old defender Mikael Westerlund tells Mitt i.
The man will also pay more than SEK 400,000 in damages to the older woman. He will also pay almost SEK 70,000 in damages to the other victims.