The 50-year-old man walked out of Ica Kvantum in Luleå on a Monday afternoon. In his hand he had an unpaid ice cream. Two guards noticed the petty theft and took the man into a cleaning storeroom.
On a surveillance video from inside the room, a third guard can be seen entering. Together with the other two, they wrestle the glass thief to the floor and on the video it looks like one of the guards is strangling the man.
The prosecutor believes that, when the man had been turned on his stomach and handcuffed, he was also subjected to life-threatening pressing violence by having a knee pressed against his neck or neck by the same guard.
“I had panic attacks and fear of death during the time he strangled me, got blood in my mouth that just grew and grew. I was going off and on, I felt that I was about to sail on,” says the plaintiff in questioning.
Watchmen are sentenced to prison
Now the security guard who subjected the man in his 50s to violence is sentenced to prison for one year and nine months for serious assault. The other two are not suspected of crimes.
The defender of the convicted guard believes that the man who twisted the ice cream was aggressive and threatening when he was taken into the cleaning warehouse. He also, according to the defence, uttered threats and strongly resisted and that was why the guards had to wrestle him to the floor.
The forensic assessment showed that the man had bleeding in the eyes and eyelids caused by blood clots in the head.