It was on March 10, 2024, that passersby found a large sports bag in a forest area on Värmdö, west of Stockholm. In the bag, wrapped in plastic bags, lay a dead 37-year-old man. He was estimated to have been murdered three days earlier.
The prosecutor requested that the court of appeal sentence all those present at the apartment when the man was murdered to longer sentences than what the district court had previously determined earlier this year, for murder or accessory to murder. However, the court of appeal makes largely the same assessments as the Nacka district court:
"This means that the evidence is not enough to sentence the accused for murder but for other crimes," the court of appeal in a press release.
The woman is therefore sentenced for accessory to gross bodily harm. Along with her brother-in-law, she is sentenced for gross disturbance of the peace of the dead, for having placed the dead man in a bag and moved it to the forest area after the murder. The sentence will be imprisonment for two years and three months. Her brother-in-law is sentenced to imprisonment for one year and eight months.
The court of appeal also upholds the district court's verdict against a third person for, among other things, grossly shielding a criminal by driving the woman out of Sweden after the crimes.
The woman's murder-suspected husband is still at large.
