The woman, who was in her 30s, was attacked on Sunday evening. She was found seriously injured in a forest area in Märsta, north of Stockholm, and died at the scene.
The woman was on her way home from work when she was assaulted. She had taken a bus from Märsta station, according to Peter Claeson.
That's where the man was. He himself has stated that he wanted to kill someone. He sat there to choose someone, says the prosecutor.
The motive can be found in mental illness over a longer period.
The man followed the woman on the bus and sat behind her. When she got off, he followed her.
Then he attacked her. He had a knife that he stabbed her with, says Peter Claeson.
Talked on the phone
The woman was talking on the phone when she was attacked. The person she was talking to alerted the police.
Since the man had swiped his card on the bus, he could be identified. He was arrested and detained on Monday.
He almost immediately confessed to having killed someone, says Peter Claeson.
According to the prosecutor, there were signs that the man had planned more violent crimes. On Wednesday, he was remanded in custody.
He has been very clear about why he did this and how he reasoned and what led to it, says his lawyer Mikael González.
He has felt unwell for a very long time and somewhere it became the culmination of his poor mental health, unfortunately.
Has been forcibly committed
The suspected man has previously been assessed as suffering from a serious mental disorder, according to documents that TT has accessed. He has been subject to forced care several times in recent years. According to a doctor, the man was "very violent and aggressive" on one occasion when he relapsed.
The district court has decided that he should undergo an examination to investigate whether he is seriously mentally ill and whether he was at the time of the crime, says Mikael González.
Why didn't the man receive continued forced care?
It's a question that we should all ask ourselves at a societal level. What I know is that he has requested conversation contacts and contacts within psychiatry, but somehow it hasn't been caught.
