The woman and her daughter were on their way to preschool in Strängnäs when they were forced into a car. They were then taken to the west coast and held captive in a rented cabin outside Kungälv over the Easter weekend.
The police tracked down the kidnappers and the mother and daughter were freed by the police task force on Boxing Day.
The motive for the kidnapping was extortion, according to the verdict. The kidnappers demanded that a man with connections to the woman pay an alleged debt for a drug deal.
Some of the same people had kidnapped a man in Katrineholm just a few days earlier. According to the prosecutor, it was about the same alleged crime.
A 22-year-old man is sentenced to six years and eleven months in prison for three counts of kidnapping. Two men, 23 and 22 years old, are sentenced to five years and five months in prison for two counts of kidnapping (the mother and the daughter).
In addition, a 20-year-old man was sentenced to two years and eight months for three counts of aiding and abetting kidnapping.
Three more men are sentenced to long prison terms solely for the kidnapping in Katrineholm.
