The Court of Appeal changes the sentence for a 40-year-old man who murdered a man ten years older in Mölndal. In the district court, the man was sentenced to forensic psychiatric care, but the Court of Appeal now instead sentences the man to 18 years in prison.
“The Court of Appeal concludes that the man has a limited need for care, which can be met by the Probation Service,” writes the court.
The crime occurred last summer when the now convicted man was visiting the Gothenburg area and apparently by chance met a man in a shopping mall.
– Nah, what a cool T-shirt you have with him Charles Manson, the 40-year-old said to the other, he tells in interrogation.
Hung in the natural area
They both started talking and exchanged numbers as the 40-year-old thought they “clicked quite well”, and had a lot in common. Among other things, both had tattoos with tributes to the controversial punk rocker GG Allin.
A couple of hours later, they met in the natural area Lackarebäck’s spring, where, according to the 40-year-old, they allegedly talked about music and socialized.
The next day, the elderly man was found dead. The court certificate states that he had, among other things, bleeding in the throat and brain, as well as many wounds and bruises on the head and body.
The certificate further states that some injuries were caused by repeated and extensive blunt force, kicks or punches with or without objects.
Allin’s funeral
The man was found with his pants pulled down and a broken cassette player over his head. According to the prosecutor, the scene must have been arranged to imitate the funeral of the idol GG Allin.
The 40-year-old has always denied crime and maintained that the older man was alive when he
left him that night. What he claimed is that he and the man had disagreed about several things and that he thought the new friend was unpleasant and troublesome.
The Court of Appeal does not buy the man’s explanation:
“On the grounds presented by the district court, the Court of Appeal considers that the investigation supports that
NN was aware of what he was doing at the time of the murder and that he intended to kill BO. The additional investigation provides support for this assessment,” writes the Court of Appeal.
“There are no mitigating circumstances and NN must, like the district court
considered, be convicted of murder”.