It was at the beginning of April that the police were alerted to the assault in Robertsfors municipality. The victim had managed to escape from the home and alerted the police. Three men and a woman between the ages of 30 and 60 were arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault.
The group were already acquainted and must have met at the woman’s home to socialize and take drugs together. The situation has since degenerated in connection with the exposed man starting to “pick up stuff” that did not belong to him.
Difficult to distinguish imagination from reality
The district court believes that the man’s story is not entirely credible and that it is difficult to determine what is fantasy and what is reality in the testimony. During the prosecution, he changed the history and details and explained this by saying that the situation triggered his PTSD and that the fear caused him to provide incorrect information.
Due to the changes and the defendants’ denial of the man’s history, the court considers that it is not possible to ignore the fact that the injuries to the man may have occurred in other ways than he told. For the same reason, it becomes difficult to prove who did what when word for word.
A man is convicted of assault
Two of the accused men have admitted that they have beaten the man, one of whom is convicted of assault and receives two months in prison and must pay SEK 10,000 in damages to the victim.