In a press release, prosecutor Karin Persson announces that the 25-year-old suspect was responsible for watching over the woman while she was being treated at the hospital.
– I mean that the man has improperly taken advantage of the woman who, due to her serious illness, has found herself in a particularly vulnerable situation, she says and adds that the woman has also been isolated on occasion due to covid restrictions.
The police self-critical
The rapes must have taken place in December 2021, but were only reported 1.5 years later. A year later, the man was reported for another rape at another address in Uppsala, but there the suspicions have weakened, according to the prosecutor.
– We have found ourselves in an extremely stressful situation, in terms of investigation. This is linked to, among other things, the wave of violence, said Lina Lunneborg, section manager at the investigation unit in Uppsala, about why the rape investigation was delayed.
During the course of the investigation, the man has denied the criminal suspicions.
In the clip below: This is what the head of security at the University Hospital commented when the man was arrested.