It was in October that the man called the police and suddenly claimed that he was one of the people involved in the murder of a man who was shot to death in the Boländerna district of Uppsala in 2017.
The now 27-year-old man is serving a life sentence in Denmark after the fatal shooting of two men outside Copenhagen in 2019, and the confession came shortly after another young man linked to the Death Patrol had been sentenced to 17 years in prison for the Uppsala murder.
Statements did not match
According to the 27-year-old's confession, the person had nothing to do with the murder, but it was actually he himself who fired the fatal shots.
The man's statement led to the murder investigation being reopened and the 27-year-old being questioned again by the police. In that interrogation, the man provided several statements that did not match the evidence, according to a statement to the Supreme Court from My Hedström, chief prosecutor at the Office of the Prosecutor-General.
Among other things, the 27-year-old claimed that the reason his friend's DNA was found on the overalls used by the perpetrators during the murder was that he had tried them on one or two days before. But the clothes were only bought about three hours before the shooting.
Wanted to get friend acquitted
"There are also other central statements for the investigation that do not match the information that (the 27-year-old) is now providing, including how the shooter in the back seat was positioned and that there were three and not two protective overalls left in the car," writes the chief prosecutor.
The investigation against the 27-year-old is now being dropped.
"It appears obvious that (the 27-year-old), who is currently serving a life sentence for double murder committed in 2019, is taking responsibility for the murder in order to get NN, who is a close friend of his, acquitted."
