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The two men deny murdering Lars and Suzanne and blame each other.
On Monday, one of the men was released after 13 months in custody.
This indicates that he will not be convicted of murder when the Court of Appeal announces its verdict today.
“Haha today we became millionaires.”
“You can trust that.”
“We know I can shoot. But it’s more of a fist type.”
It is one o’clock in the evening until January 11, 2020. A 28-year-old and a 26-year-old talk and cheer for what is to come: a robbery against a couple in Vallentuna, Lars, 61 and Suzanne, 52.
When Lars and Suzanne, a quiet and loving couple with no known enemies, are found brutally murdered in their lonely village in Vallentuna, a large police apparatus is set in motion. It is often said that the first 24 hours are extra important in a murder investigation and here the couple has already been dead for four days. There is a risk that the tracks of the murderer, or murderers, have already grown cold.
Photo: Police
Lars, 61 and Suzanne, 52.
A strange story emerges
Police forensic technicians spend a whole week in the villa. One possible motif will soon be ready, Lars had recently sold a family farm and became rich. There is a risk that the wrong person found out about your money.
Following the money trail, police can arrest three youths from the area after just three weeks: the 28-year-old and the 26-year-old.
– We located the defendants by making transfers from the plaintiffs’ accounts to the accounts of one of the defendants. They had also logged into the now-murdered man’s bank account from one of the men’s homes after the fact, chamber prosecutor Jenny Karlsson previously explained.
During the long investigation, a strange story emerges. It turns out that the oldest suspect has tricked the youngest into working for a high-ranking person, a union boss named Theo Arkas, and that they also have a corrupt police officer on their side. Theo Arkas is the one who tells them what to do and how. And he is a person you should not confront.
Photo: PETER WIXTRÖM
In the fall, the police carried out reconstructions on the suspects.
It takes a lot of interrogation and a lot of evidence before the youngest of men will dare to believe the interrogators when they are told that Theo Arkas doesn’t really exist. That all the time it was just his friend, the 28-year-old, who was Arkas and that the network that, according to him, existed around him, were just fantasy characters.
– I just hope that everything he has said is a lie, that my family does not get hurt, says the 26-year-old in questioning.
When asked why he thinks the 28-year-old made everything up, he replies:
– From the beginning, I think it has only been to get as much money as possible. So, I don’t know, so it was probably something because he wanted to do things but he didn’t want to do things himself. It was quite practical to be able to force someone.
Photo: PETER WIXTRÖM
In February, the two men were arrested. Here, the police are on the scene at the 26-year-old’s home.
The stories are divided
What really happened in the town of Vallentuna on the morning of January 11, the stories differ. Both men admit they were there to rob the couple. But they blame each other for the murders.
The 26-year-old recounts in an interrogation how he and Lars spoke for the first time.
– He asked me: Why do you start with things like that? And I didn’t get a really good answer because I want to say, what, what, what would I say? So I told him half of what I was, I said that he has out there, that he will send people to my family if I don’t accompany him in this… So I, I had no other option, I said.
When the robber duo begin to realize that the great fortune they hoped for is not hidden in the house, the mood changes and becomes even more threatening. The 26-year-old claims he later hears a bang and sees Lars bleeding on the kitchen floor with the 28-year-old standing next to him.
– Then I saw that he (28 years old) was spitting on him. He looked up and saw me and started tanning and said, I was spitting on him.
Photo: PONTUS ORRE
Suzanne and Lars were found murdered at their home in Vallentuna on January 15, 2020.
It has been described as legally complicated
According to the 26-year-old, the 28-year-old then goes to Suzanne. His head is wrapped in plastic for 24 turns before a belt is put around his neck and tightened.
The 28-year-old, on the other hand, says that he is in the plot when the 26-year-old comes out and says that everything has gone to hell and that the couple is dead.
But the district court decided to sentence them both to life in prison for Suzanne’s murder. The court ruled that whoever did whatever it was, they were both involved in it, and while the 28-year-old was driving, the 26-year-old never tried to stop the plans or pull out.
After the murders, the men continued to write to each other about what they had done, often in a crude and furious way.
However, the ruling by the Court of Appeals, to be announced on Friday, appears to be completely different from that of the district court. On Monday, the 26-year-old was released on bail after 13 months in custody, a clear sign that he will not be convicted of any crime that carries more than two years in prison.
Lindomefallet
The case has always been described as legally complicated, mostly because the men blamed each other and the technical evidence was unable to clarify who did what.
One of the best known cases in which defendants blame each other and thus receive lighter sentences or avoid criminal liability altogether is the Lindome case, which has even become a legal concept.
It was on October 26, 1990, when someone killed an 89-year-old man with a frying pan at his home in Lindome. Two men were charged with the murder, but were acquitted of the murder charge because the court could not decide which of them was telling the truth. The murder of Gert-Inge in Markaryd is another example where the suspects blamed each other and were acquitted in the Court of Appeal.
At 11.00 am, the judgment of the Court of Appeal on the double murder in Vallentuna will be announced.
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