With the slippers wrapped with laces to be able to run faster, the man set off from the youth home. “You don’t want to be locked up,” he said in a police interview.
Staff ran after and then he allegedly slammed a front door in the face of one of them.
The teenager is said to have also produced a knife-like self-made accessory when the staff caught up, and scratched the same person on the chest.
Wrapped frame
He has said that he made the weapon with an eyeglass frame that he wrapped with newspaper and tape from a snuff box. But he denies in questioning that he has scratched it. Then the escape continued and the teenager ran into a stream where he could then be caught by staff.
The staff had to visit the hospital for stitches in the face and treatment of a long wound on the chest.
The man is charged with serious violence against an official. From documents that SVT Uppsala has seen, it appears that the man tried to escape on other occasions as well.
At the trial, another person from the staff at the youth center is called to testify.