According to the indictment, 21-year-old Tove was strangled to death and the body burned. Now the suspected perpetrators are charged with murder and gross violation of the peace of the grave. But Leif GW Persson is doubtful about the prosecutor’s direction: – He has chosen the easiest: he goes all-in. Tove, 21, disappeared in October after a night out in Vetlanda. Hundreds of volunteers became involved in the search for her, but in early November she was found dead in a wooded area outside the city. Now two women, 18 and 20 years old, are being charged with murder and grave breach of privacy. The prosecutor believes that the 18-year-old held Tove while the 20-year-old strangled her. But Leif GW Persson is skeptical that both are prosecuted for the same crime, because the 18-year-old denies some involvement: – It can be tricky to corroborate when words stand against words and the credibility is roughly comparable. If you don’t have any kind of technical evidence – that you find something on the victim’s wrists or something like that. It will be decisive According to GW, the 20-year-old is far worse off than the 18-year-old: – I would be surprised if both are convicted of murder. It is based on the fact that they have different parts and the responsibility must then be individualized. The 20-year-old is much worse off. – A stumbling block concerns the cause of death itself: it cannot have happened as the 20-year-old says. That she would manage to strangle someone in 10 seconds, it takes several minutes to strangle someone like that.
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GW: "Couldn’t have happened as the 20-year-old says”
