On May 1 last year, a private person alerted the police after a dead body was found at Vista Kulle Rastsplats along the E4 outside Huskvarna.
It turned out to be a man in his 70s who was murdered. The man had been held imprisoned for several days while three men tried to push his family into money to release him.
Were driven in the trunk to Småland
The crime had begun in Skärholmen outside Stockholm, and the men had then stowed the older man in the luggage compartment on a car, driven south and dumped his body at Vista Kulle. He had been badly beaten and died of bleeding and injuries to the head.
The three men today got their judgments in Södertörn District Court. A 35-year-old man is sentenced to life imprisonment for murder and human trafficking as well as deportation.
The other two are convicted of human trafficking. A 20-year-old man is sentenced to 5 years and 10 months in prison; He will also be expelled from Sweden. The other, who was under 18 when he committed the crime, is sentenced to closed youth care for one year and eight months.
A woman who tried to help the younger man flee abroad is sentenced to gross protection of criminal to conditional judgment and community service.