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Film key evidence – murder suspect changes statement during interrogation

The men cared for the elderly woman in their job within home care and formed bonds with relatives. Now he is standing trial for having strangled their mother. During the first day of the trial, it emerged that the man had altered his statements regarding the incident as recently as the weekend.

» Updated: July 16 2024

» Published: June 11 2024

Film key evidence – murder suspect changes statement during interrogation
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The man cared for the elderly woman in his job within home care and formed bonds with relatives. Now he is standing trial for having suffocated their mother.

During the first day of the trial, it emerged that the man had changed his statements regarding the incident as recently as the weekend.

The man, who is in his 50s, worked within the municipality's home care in Strömstad, and it was during a home visit that the man allegedly suffocated the elderly woman with plastic film, according to the indictment.

The murdered woman was particularly vulnerable due to the dependent position that existed, believes Daniel Veivo Pettersson.

Among the evidence is a film sequence that the man himself shared on the internet, where the woman is suffocated with the help of plastic film. However, over the weekend, he suddenly came up with new statements.

As I understand it, he is now claiming that the filming, where she has plastic around her head, is not from 2 November when she was later found dead. Instead, it is supposed to have been recorded on another occasion, says prosecutor Daniel Veivo Pettersson during a court recess.

The statements came now over the weekend, so it was a bit hectic to try to get police personnel to investigate it. But I think it doesn't affect the indictment.

Denies murder

According to the man's defence lawyer Elin Hagström, he denies the murder, but admits to filming the woman.

He admits to having committed what we can see on the film. But it did not lead to death, she says.

In the courtroom, the relatives sit together with the plaintiff's assistant Leif Björklund and the prosecutor on the left side.

Opposite the relatives sits the accused in a turquoise-coloured shirt and leans his head in his hand. Now and then, he takes notes.

When the film is to be shown, the court requests closed doors, and then the relatives also leave.

It's a very unpleasant film, said Daniel Veivo Pettersson to TT before the trial.

Several interrogations

The investigation is extensive and consists, among other things, of several interrogations with other employees within home care and members of the computer gaming group, technical evidence in the form of messages between the accused and others in the group, and logs from the access control system used within home care.

When the police learned of the murder, the woman's body had already been cremated, under the assumption that it was a natural death.

According to a statement from the National Board of Forensic Medicine, the accused may have had a serious mental disorder both at the time of the murder and during the investigation conducted in December.

The trial will continue for another three days at Uddevalla District Court.

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