This week, a younger man was arrested, suspected of the murder of the woman who was found dead by a bicycle in Eskilstuna last December.
Today he was requested to be detained in the district court.
– The detention hearing is over and the person was detained, reasonably suspected of murder, says Annika Collin, press officer at the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
When the police were alerted about the dead woman in December last year, they initially thought it was a cardiac arrest. The woman was found next to a bicycle and the police assumed that an accident was behind the death. At the hospital, a bullet hole was discovered and that the woman had been shot.
– I don’t want to go into exactly what the circumstances and injuries are, but that is the thesis and the track we are working on now. There is no natural explanation for the injuries and therefore a preliminary investigation regarding murder has been initiated, said Marcus Anefur, press spokesperson at the police when the bullet hole was discovered.
It took months before anyone was arrested in connection with the murder. This week, the police were able to arrest and the prosecutor arrested a younger man connected to the case. Today the man was detained by the district court, reasonably suspected of murder.
– It is the lower level of suspicion, says Annika Collin, press officer at the Prosecutor’s Office.
Collin announces that the prosecutor now has until February 23 to present probable cause.