New details about the murder of 28-year-old Nimo Daud in Märsta • The prosecutor: Horrific
Nimo Daud was on the phone with his best friend Saynab Hassan, 26, on his way home from work on Sunday evening, December 15 last year.
Suddenly, when she got off the bus and walked through a small wooded area a few hundred meters from the home in Märsta, heartbreaking screams were heard.
– She screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed. And then there was silence, says Saynab Hassan previously said in an interview.
Nimo Daud had been assaulted and subjected to severe knife violence by a man unknown to her. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
The police had no conceivable motive for the murder and suspected that it could be an act of insanity. Intensive investigative work was started to quickly arrest the killer before he would commit more unprovoked attacks.
Unknown man got on the bus after Nimo Daud
Police homicide investigators reviewed surveillance cameras from Nimo Daud’s last hours to try to see if anything suspicious was visible. Large parts of her journey home were captured on film.
– She works at the Löwenströmska hospital on Sunday evening and goes home by public transport and arrives at Märsta station. There she goes on a bus, says Peter Claesson, chief prosecutor who leads the murder investigation.
On the footage, you could see how a man, who was sitting at the stop, got on the same bus – right after Nimo Daud.
– He keeps his SL card and Swish and gets on the bus, says Peter Claesson.
The investigators still did not react to anything during the approximately ten-minute long bus journey to Valsta.
– Nothing. The man was sitting near her, says Peter Claesson.
When Nimo Daud got off at his stop, the man stood up and followed. That’s where the footage ended.
The police knocked – received the murderer’s confession at the door
The police investigators then chose to check the exact time in the surveillance video when the bus card was swiped after Nimo Daud’s card. When you went through SL’s logs, you could get the unknown man’s card number and start mapping it – then you got an identity for him. A 38-year-old man living in Märsta.
– We have had the help of SL to identify him. The police pulled it for me the afternoon after the murder. I thought they had come so far that I could arrest the man in his absence and decide on the house search, says Peter Claesson.
When the police got to the 38-year-old’s apartment, he opened the door and immediately, at the front door, confessed to the knife murder to the police.
– He spoke about where in the home the knife was.
“Decided to kill someone”
The 38-year-old decided to kill Nimo Daud only when he was sitting on the bus.
– It appears that he has decided that he will take the life of someone, unclear who, and that it happens to be her. He has caught up with her and assaulted her.
Has he said anything about why it was her?
– Not very detailed. I don’t want to say exactly what he said, but it didn’t appear that there was any hate crime motive, it just seems to be random.
Prosecutor: Solved the murder in under 20 hours
The police found traces in the man’s home that indicate he would carry out more acts of violence, something the prosecutor does not want to elaborate on.
– The police work must be said to be outstanding. It was a detective murder with an unknown perpetrator and it was solved in less than 20 hours. It’s amazingly well done. Evidence is destroyed and it is important to be truthful, and I think it was enormously good police work.
The 38-year-old is seriously mentally ill and is now being treated at a forensic psychiatric clinic.
– It is a horrific murder. All murders are horrible but when it’s so random where it could be anyone, a woman on her way home from work… it’s horrifying. My thoughts go out to the relatives of the crime victim. It is enormously tragic.
Nimo Daud turned 38.