A young man with “reduced understanding” on an LSS accommodation was recruited on TikTok in a murder plot.
The man, who is seriously mentally ill, was commissioned to go abroad and chop a person to death.
Now he is convicted of stamping to murder – in what the district court calls “abuse of his misunderstanding”.
The man in his 20s was arrested in early November last year after calling his mother to pick up his passport. He then told me that he received money to kill someone and would go abroad.
The mother in turn called the police after tracking his cellphone. The young man could then be stopped by a patrol.
In interrogation, the man, who is placed on an LSS accommodation, has told him that he was contacted by two people on Tiktok. They later went over to an encrypted chat and then decided on a meeting in central Stockholm where he “got the details for the assignment”.
The two unknown people would book air tickets to Dubai or Turkey where the man would stab to death a person. He got the instructions in chats. The man then went to his mother to pick up his passport but was arrested at the T-Centralen when he was on his way to Arlanda.
“Abused the man’s misunderstanding”
The man has now been convicted of stamping to murder. When he suffers from a serious mental disorder, the sanction was forensic psychiatric care with special discharge testing.
In the judgment, Attunda notes that the instigators abused the man’s misunderstanding to make him participate in the murder plans.
“He has had a reduced ability to realize the meaning of the deeds and adapt to such insight and that his actions must be considered to have been in connection with his lack of development, experience and ability to judge,” the court writes.
Although the court believes that the man was exploited, he is not acquitted then “the case is not minor”. In their investigation, the police have not been able to find the two people who recruited him.
“It has been made attempts to find out who has instigated, but it has not been possible to draw any certain conclusions about who these people should be,” says Chamber Prosecutor Kevin Öksuz.
The man was also convicted of a violation of the knife law, two cases of illegal threats and damage.