The man was sentenced at the beginning of the year in the district court for aiding and abetting murder and aggravated weapons offenses to 13 years and 9 months in prison. But the court of appeal makes a different assessment.
The now acquitted man had, according to the prosecutor, handled the murder weapon together with the shooter and lent his apartment to him. The district court sentenced him for aiding and abetting murder and aggravated weapons offenses to 13 years and 9 months in prison.
However, the man has consistently claimed that he believed the person who committed the murder was actually going to carry out a drug deal. According to the court of appeal, it is not proven that he had the intention of aiding and abetting the murder.
"The court of appeal has assessed that the prosecutor has not rebutted the 25-year-old's claim that he believed it was a drug deal that was going to take place," says court of appeal judge Per Christensen in a press release.
According to the court of appeal, he also did not have sufficient control over the murder weapon to be convicted of weapons offenses.
The shooter who was sentenced in the district court to life imprisonment for the murder did not appeal the verdict to the court of appeal.
It was on April 14 last year that the boy was shot with multiple shots in the Navestad district of Norrköping. He was found injured outdoors and was taken to the hospital, but his life could not be saved. According to the prosecutor, the boy was lured to the location before the murder.
The act is believed to be linked to a conflict between criminal networks in Norrköping that has resulted in a long series of serious violent crimes, including several murders.
