Managed to skip the balcony railing and alerted police • New documentary on TV4 Play
It was a rainy Thursday in November 1990. Rebecka, who is really called something else, worked as a preschool teacher at a preschool in Tensta and was 25 years old. That day it was her turn to open. When she entered, she noticed that it shone in the staff room and that the security chain on the balcony was off.
“Became my rescue”
– I didn’t think much more about it then. But that was what was my rescue later, that I saw that this chain was off and thus got an escape route, says Rebecka.
When she started picking up breakfast, a man suddenly stood in the doorway and swam about some “Micke”.
– I said he had to go wrong when he suddenly pointed behind me. He said “look there” and then he threw me down on the floor. I fought for my life. I had no idea what he was going to do, she says.
Fled over the balcony railing
Rebecka finally managed to tear herself loose. She fled the balcony railing on the first floor and alerted the police. She first experienced no pain – the adrenaline and the survival instinct took over. The next day, when she was going into police interviews, the reaction and pain came.
– I was hurt everywhere. I could barely get out of bed.
Be in the space
Rebecka pointed out the man during a witness confrontation. It turned out to be Jordanis Kourout’s page. He was in the space from prison, where he served a sentence for, among other things, serious rape.
He was later sentenced to one year in prison for attempted rape against Rebecka and was obliged to pay her SEK 20,000 in damages. Some time after the assault, Rebecka chose to move from Stockholm due to fear that he would reappear. The event has left deep traces.
– It has really changed me. I was never afraid before, but now I look behind doors and curtains, she says.
The “ghost man” has been convicted of several rapes ever since the 1980s and is now facing trial for a suspected rape last fall. Rebecka lacks hope that ordinary prison sentences will prevent him from committing more crimes.
– He needs to be locked in in some other way. I have a hard time believing that he will ever end.
The ghost man
The ghost man is one of Sweden’s worst serial rapists. Jordani’s Kourutside was first sentenced in 1988. Now he is facing trial again.