A 37-year-old man who was married to the murdered woman is sentenced to life imprisonment for murder in Eskilstuna district court.
The woman's 55-year-old mother-in-law is sentenced for instigation to murder for having given her children instructions about the murder. She is also sentenced for conspiracy to murder, as she had previously tried to get another person to murder her daughter-in-law. She also receives life imprisonment.
The husband's brother is sentenced to twelve years in prison for aiding and abetting murder and gross protection of a criminal.
In total, five family members are convicted of involvement in the murder. The woman's sister-in-law and her husband are acquitted of aiding and abetting murder but are sentenced for gross protection of a criminal to imprisonment for two years and two years and six months, respectively.
Two more people, a mother and a daughter with ties to the family, are sentenced for gross protection of a criminal to imprisonment for one year and six months.
All the convicted deny the allegations.
Wanted to divorce
It was on September 17 last year that the woman was found dead in her own apartment.
She was then on her way to travel to Greece to meet her two children who lived with their father. Instead, she was strangled or suffocated to death. She was found two days later when her boss raised the alarm that she had not shown up for work.
The motive is considered to be honor-related. The woman was said to have wanted to divorce her husband, which the family opposed. She had married her husband, who was also her cousin, when she was only 17 years old.
Lived under threat
In the judgment, it appears that the woman had been subjected to violence and death threats from her husband and his family for a longer period and that they, among other things, had opinions about her clothing and wanted her to wear a veil. She made several police reports, including against her father-in-law for assault and threats, as well as her husband for having unlawfully taken their children to Turkey.
The reports were often withdrawn. In court, the woman's sister testified about how the family threatened her to withdraw them.
