When the police broke into the apartment in Malmö in August 2021, they found two dead people, a woman in her 30s and a 44-year-old man. It turned out that the woman had been held captive in the apartment for two days before the man shot her and then took his own life.
The two knew each other from before and were colleagues and friends. It was the woman’s employer who raised the alarm when she did not show up for work.
Failed to raise the alarm
The killer was dead, but the murder still led to a prosecution. The 44-year-old man had told the 35-year-old about his plans to kidnap a woman, extort money from her and then kill her. Despite that, the police were not alerted and the prosecutor believed that the 35-year-old was thus guilty of failure to disclose murder and failure to disclose kidnapping.
The 35-year-old has denied any wrongdoing. However, the District Court believes that the evidence is so strong that he should be sentenced for failure to disclose kidnapping. However, the court does not consider it proven that he knew the woman would be murdered, so he is not sentenced for that part.