A 22-year-old man is sentenced for shooting to death a 25-year-old man in Borås in 2020. The trial is historic because a crown witness has given testimony in the trial. It was on November 3, 2020 that the 25-year-old man was shot dead with several shots outside the university in Borås. Now a 22-year-old is sentenced to 14 years in prison for murder and aggravated weapons offences. He was previously suspected of the attempted murder of a friend of the murdered man who was also at the scene, but was acquitted of that charge. The convicted man has denied wrongdoing. The trial is historic, as one of Sweden’s first Crown witnesses – a former gang leader – testified about Link earlier during the trial. The new law on crown witnesses came into force in July 2022. The law means that a person who testifies against someone else can himself receive a lighter sentence. The crown witness was previously in a holding cell next to the man who was today convicted of murder. After a while they established contact with each other and the convicted man began to tell details about the murder, something that the Crown witness later contacted the police about. “He started to open up about the murder and what happened and who was involved. I was a little shocked at first, you don’t talk about it when you’re in custody. He dropped quite a few names, he was completely cool with it,” said the crown witness earlier during the trial in March, Borås Tidning reported. That’s why the crown witness wanted to tell Despite the fact that the crown witness lives with a protected identity, he has received death threats from people he grew up with. But it was not the Crown witness reform that was his main motive for telling the police, according to himself. “I remember talking to my lawyer about wanting to tell this. I even told the cops that I wanted to give information but I didn’t want to be on the papers. I didn’t want to participate. Fuck this I thought, I only have my boys left, I’ll tell you.”, he said during the trial. “I go from gang leader to fucking goon. But when he tells me that they tried to kill the victim’s father at the cemetery, then I felt that this person… then all my sympathy for him disappeared. That was one of the main points that made me tell.” In the player above: Leif GW Persson gives his view on Crown witnesses in trials.
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You get 14 years in prison – sentenced in a unique trial with a crown witness
