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A woman in her 60s wanted to sell a gun she had inherited from her late husband.
When she handed it in to the police, she was suspected, and later convicted, of weapons offences, writes Hallands Nyheter.
Boxes from the couple’s shared home had been unpacked for several years when the woman saw the gun.
Since the gun’s original box was still there, it could be worth at least SEK 35,000. The woman spoke to a gun dealer who advised that the weapon should be handed in to the police as it required a licence.
At the police in Gothenburg, the woman was served with suspicion of weapons offenses because she had not handed in the weapon in connection with her husband’s death.
In police questioning, the woman states that she did not know that the gun required a license and that it was a crime to have it at home. But the district court concluded earlier this year that she was guilty of minor weapons offences. The punishment was daily fines totaling SEK 12,000.
A dissenting Court of Appeal has now upheld the sentence. Two out of five judges in the Court of Appeal for Western Sweden wanted to acquit her.