Forensic Board Raises Relapse Risk for Jackie Arklöv

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Forensic Board Raises Relapse Risk for Jackie Arklöv
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There is a "medium-high" risk of relapse into serious crime for Jackie Arklöv who is serving a life sentence for the police murders in Malexander 1999, according to a new statement from the National Board of Forensic Medicine (RMV).

It is a level up from the previous assessment of RMV, which in a statement in 2022 considered that the risk of relapse was "low", the lowest level on a three-level scale.

The statement from 2022 was the basis for Örebro District Court deciding two years ago that Arklöv's life sentence would be converted to a fixed-term sentence. The assessment of low risk of relapse was however questioned by the prosecutor and by Göta Court of Appeal, which overturned the District Court's decision to convert the sentence.

The new statement from RMV has been obtained since Jackie Arklöv has again applied to have his life sentence converted to a fixed-term sentence, which SVT News Västerbotten has reported.

In the afternoon of May 28, 1999, Östgöta Enskilda Bank in Kisa in Östergötland was robbed by Tony Olsson, Andreas Axelsson and Jackie Arklöv.

During the chase of the bank robbers, the 42-year-old police officer Olle Borén and his colleague Robert Karlström, 30 years old, were shot to death at close range with their own service weapons.

In June 2000, the three men were sentenced to life imprisonment by Göta Court of Appeal. Arklöv denied for a long time both the robbery and the murders, but in the summer of 2001, he admitted that it was he who fired the fatal shots.

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