On August 8, a child in Arvika called 112. The child told the emergency services that “mother is dying” and several patrols were ordered to the scene.
Outside the home, they met a man babbling and in the kitchen a woman who was bleeding profusely from the side of her stomach. Life-saving measures were initiated, but the woman died from her injuries.
“On my way out, I see a large sword lying in the room between the living room and the exit of the house. The sword is bloody,” the police write in their report.
The woman’s husband, who is 37 years old, had stabbed the sword through her body and seriously damaged the aorta and kidney. He is described by the police as heavily drunk and confused when they arrest him.
“He does not answer any questions but gives completely irrelevant answers. Sometimes he laughs and sometimes he just stares at me. He also asks questions sometimes like ‘where is my wife?’, ‘how is my wife??’. He often talks about smoking, it is difficult to decipher the exact meaning as he slurs, has a strong accent and is bad at Swedish,” the police write.
The children in shock
The couple’s two shocked children were taken to the neighboring house.
“The children sit and cry, shake and are shocked. They start talking and it is initially difficult to understand what they are saying through the crying, which is at that moment hysterical in rounds,” writes the police.
“Both tell of father having stuck a sword in mother’s stomach. They said that the father was drunk and that the mother had told the father that she did not want to be with him anymore”.
On Friday, the three-day trial ended. According to the Värmland district court, the 37-year-old man is guilty of murdering his wife. Because the children witnessed the murder, the prosecutor is demanding that the man also be sentenced for serious breach of child protection.
The man, who claims that he had no intention of murdering the woman, will now undergo a forensic psychiatric examination that will determine whether the penalty will be prison or care. The investigation will take about a month and the hearing will resume on January 8.