My mother kept my brother locked up for 28 years south of Stockholm.



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At age 20, the woman had no contact with her brother.

On Sunday night, she found him toothless and with severe leg ulcers on the floor of the house where they grew up. There he has been forced to live in isolation with his mother without contact with the outside world.

– She whispered my name several times, she says in a television interview for Expressen.

What met you last Sunday when you walked into your old childhood home?

– It was a dark apartment where the television was on in the living room. There were things everywhere and it smelled disgusting, just utter misery. I walked in and softly yelled hello, can you hear me? I heard something from the kitchen and slipped away. From the light of a lamppost, I can see her legs sitting in an armchair at the other end of the kitchen.

The sister says that her brother got up at the same time that she was lighting the candle. Although they had not known each other for more than 20 years, he recognized her.

– When she saw that it was me, she repeated my name over and over again, she says on Expressen TV.

What state was it in?

– Mentally he was stressed and anxious and a little scared, but at the same time happy to see me, I experienced it so much that he was glad to see me, but his physical condition was terrible.

– He had terrible wounds on all his calves and all his feet. There were only puddles so there were puddles on the ground and he had no teeth left in his mouth except for two black ones on his lower jaw.

In 20 years, the sister had no contact with her brother. On Sunday night, she found him toothless and with severe leg ulcers on the floor of the house where they grew up.Photo: SVEN LINDWALL

The woman: the mother isolated him

The sister says that she tried to talk calmly with her brother so that he would not be afraid.

– I asked him if he was concerned that our mother was in the hospital and he replied that he was a little nervous. Then I told him that I also had to take him to a hospital.

Then the brother looked scared and worried, but when the sister assured him that she would be with him all the time, he calmed down, he says.

– I was in such a state of shock that I did not think about covid and therefore they would not let me go with him.

28 years ago you left school, how have you lived since then?

– Little by little since he started in the seventh grade he has been isolated from society by our mother. My sister and I were not allowed to meet him and he has become such that he was not allowed to meet grandmother and grandfather and, of course, neither his friends. It hasn’t happened from one day to the next, but it all started when we were little, says Expressen TV’s sister.

“It hasn’t happened from one day to the next, but it all started when we were little,” says the Expressen TV sister.Photo: Sven Lindwall

Sister: “It was completely normal”

According to the sister, the man has not been physically locked in the apartment. This is also confirmed by neighbors with whom Expressen has spoken and who have seen him leave on occasion. Often at night.

– But he is so shattered mentally that he has no roots in society outside those walls, she has totally controlled him as a sect leader, the sister possesses.

How did she do this?

– She has always had a real obsession and has been overprotective because she lost a son, my older brother, when I was only one and a half years old. When she had a new son, he baptized him with the same name as my older brother and always told us that he had got his son back.

According to the sister, the man must also have been imprinted with the fact that he is the son who has returned to her.

How do you remember him as a child?

– It was completely normal. A little shy at times with new people, but nothing unusual at all. We spend a lot of time together and playing in the yard.

What would you like to say to the authorities who have allowed this to happen?

– I have no words, there are so many years of extreme anger and frustration, it’s terrible.

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A 70-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of having kept her son in prison for 28 years.

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