Updated 14:38 | Published 13:24
A theft allowed the 21-year-old to be tied to a six-year-old child rape case. Now he is sentenced to prison by the Attunda district court.
On February 11, 2017, a 13-year-old girl was subjected to a serious rape in an exercise track in Järfälla municipality by a person who has so far been unknown. The police secured traces, but could not match the DNA to a perpetrator. Until this year.
In mid-June, a man was arrested on suspicion of aggravated theft in Värmdö after he and five others entered a premises to steal metals. The man was arrested for aggravated theft and the police arrested him.
Then it turned out that the man’s DNA matched the DNA that was secured after the rape in Järfälla in 2017. At the end of June, the man was arrested for aggravated rape of a child and now the verdict has been handed down in Attunda district court.
13 months in prison, deportation from Sweden and a ban on returning for 15 years was the punishment. In addition, he must pay SEK 282,000 in damages.
The man was 15 years old at the time of the rape, which is something that the district court took into account in the decision. They have also taken into account that the man was sentenced to five months in prison for the metal theft at Värmdö.
“The verdict is extremely important, not least to be able to give the vulnerable girl and her family some closure after a long and tough period,” says Gustaf Silfverstolpe, section head for serious crimes in Stockholm north.