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The Upper Norrland Court of Appeal acquits a man who has been sentenced by the district court to 16 years in prison for murder. Stock Photography.
A 32-year-old man who was sentenced by the district court to 16 years in prison for a murder committed in Malmberget in 2015 is acquitted by the Court of Appeal.
In district court, the man was convicted along with a 31-year-old man for beating a 36-year-old man so brutally that he died.
The 32-year-old man was convicted of murder, while the 31-year-old was convicted of aggravated battery.
The man convicted of murder appealed the verdict. The 31-year-old only appealed the damages that he was ordered to pay to the victim’s relatives.
The Court of Appeal now fully acquits the 32-year-old man.
“The Court of Appeals has found that the evidence is not such as to exclude that the event took place differently from what the prosecutor alleged and that there may be alternative perpetrators who participated in the murder,” the press release said.
In the district court, great emphasis was placed on the 31-year-old’s account of how the murder occurred, but according to the Court of Appeal there are strong reasons to question his information “as he was found to have a serious mental disorder in the time of the crime “.
“Since it is not clear how the act was carried out and since there is an alternative course of facts and perpetrators that cannot be ruled out, it must be an acquittal”, says the president of the court, the president of the Court of Appeal Erik Sundström in the press release.
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