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full screen A man has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for murder in Motala. Archive image. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT
A man in his 30s who killed another man with a knife in Motala this spring is sentenced to 17 years in prison for murder, Motala & Vadstena Tidning reports.
The district court considers it proven that the man was not in an emergency situation at the time of the incident. The court has also decided that he should be deported for life.
– He denies crime and has had no intention to kill. I have been in contact with my client and we will appeal, says the man’s lawyer Ulrika Wangle to the newspaper.
It was on a Friday evening at the beginning of May that the police were alerted that a badly injured man had been found outdoors in central Motala. He was taken by ambulance to hospital, but his life could not be saved.