The prosecutor's request for corporate fines is also rejected.
The man at the group home in Enköping attacked a 19-year-old woman with a knife on November 17, 2022, while she was the only staff member on site. The woman was so severely injured that she died, and the man himself called the emergency center and reported what he had done. In 2023, he was sentenced to forensic psychiatric care.
Prosecutor Jennie Nordin believed, after a lengthy investigation, that the CEO of the care company operating the home had work environment responsibility for the woman and that there were deficiencies in the work environment work that likely contributed to the outcome.
Among other things, a sufficiently thorough risk assessment was not conducted at the home, according to the indictment for work environment offense through negligence leading to another's death.
"A risk assessment would, among other things, have led to the prohibition of solo work and the unavailability of knives," Nordin said in connection with the indictment in July 2024.
The Uppsala District Court agrees that the CEO had work environment responsibility and that there were deficiencies in the systematic work environment work.
However, according to the court, there is no support for the conclusion that acceptable work environment work would have led to a ban on solo work with the man, that knives would not have been available, or that alarms would have been present to prevent violence against staff.
"It is therefore not considered proven that any causal link between the deficiencies in the work environment work and the murder of NN (the 19-year-old) existed," the court writes.
Nor has the CEO, through negligence, caused the woman's death, and is therefore to be acquitted according to the district court.
