A man was held in a sauna in Falun and subjected to torture violence in a protracted sequence of events.
Rejected bottle necks were used – and the victim was only centimeters away from dying.
Now three young men are sentenced for attempted murder and aggravated robbery.
– There is a lot of blood, reported the first patrol that arrived at the crime scene on the morning of October 26 last year.
A man had managed to get to a resident and seek help.
– I have to get an ambulance to X (address) immediately. I got a guy here and he’s sitting
and is bleeding profusely and he must have been cut below the neck. He came… to knock on the window, said the woman in the SOS call.
One of the men tried to stop the torture
The victim had been subjected to “extensive violence” and received, among other things, kicks and punches.
In addition, the perpetrators used broken glass bottles and cut him so that he received “heavily bleeding wounds on his neck and head”.
In the investigation, the victim told that it was about three perpetrators. Two of them cut and stabbed him with the discarded bottle necks during the evening and night. The third initially tried to get the other two to stop the act of violence, but later joined in and, among other things, blocked the way out of the premises. In addition, he said “that they were going to finish off” the victim, according to the same interrogation.
According to the medical examination, one of the cuts with the glass bottle “was one or a few centimeters from the body artery in the plaintiff’s neck”, and the victim would have died if he had not received immediate care on the spot.
After the acts of violence, they left “the plaintiff alone in the sauna room bleeding profusely.”
The perpetrators also robbed the victim of his mobile phone and credit card and used around SEK 1,000.
District Court: Very serious violence
After a preliminary investigation for just over six months, the verdict was handed down today against the perpetrators.
The three men, aged 18, 20 and 24, were all sentenced to ten years in prison for attempted murder and aggravated robbery. The 20-year-old was also convicted of minor drug offences, threatening an official and vandalism. The oldest of the trio is also expelled from Sweden with a ban on returning.
They must also pay damages to the victim of just over SEK 190,000.
– Regarding the length of the prison sentence and the compensation that the men must pay to the plaintiff, we have taken into account that the men have subjected the plaintiff to very serious violence and that it was a question of a protracted sequence of events with almost torture-like elements. The men should therefore be sentenced to long prison sentences and it is justified that the plaintiff be awarded a high amount of damages, says the court’s president and lawyer Johan Rosén.
Among the evidence was DNA from the perpetrators, surveillance footage from the ATM used to withdraw the victim’s money, and a cellphone video taken by one of the men of the bloody crime.
The convicted men have given different explanations, but the district court believes that it “appears to be clear after-the-fact constructions that have been adapted to the evidence that the prosecutor has been able to present after the preliminary investigation has been completed.”