According to a statement from the Swedish Board of Forensic Medicine (RMV) earlier this year, there is a "medium" risk of reoffending in serious crimes for Jackie Arklöv, who has been incarcerated for over 26 years.
Although the district court views Arklöv's willingness to change positively, the risk of recidivism constitutes an absolute obstacle to determining a fixed term for the life sentence, the court writes in its decision.
Arklöv has also been convicted of serious crimes against humanity during his time as a mercenary in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
He has previously been denied an application for a fixed-term sentence on eight occasions. In 2023, Örebro District Court announced that the life sentence would be commuted to a fixed term, but this was appealed to the Göta Court of Appeal, which decided that the life sentence would stand.
Tony Olsson and Andreas Axelsson, who together with Arklöv were sentenced to life imprisonment for the police murders in Malexander in 1999, have previously been released on bail.
On the afternoon of May 28, 1999, Östgöta Enskilda Bank in Kisa, Östergötland, was robbed by Tony Olsson, Andreas Axelsson and Jackie Arklöv.
During the hunt for the bank robbers, 42-year-old police officer Olle Borén and his colleague Robert Karlström, 30, were shot dead at close range with their own service weapons.
In June 2000, the three men were sentenced to life imprisonment by the Göta Court of Appeal.
Arklöv long denied both the robbery and the murders, but in the summer of 2001 he admitted that he fired the fatal shots.
