The record-long prison sentence of eleven years and ten months for the boy who was 16 years old at the time of the murders remains in place.
A 15-year-old boy who was convicted of giving the shooter the assignment also appealed. He too is denied a retrial and the sentence of nine years and ten months in prison remains in place.
The news comes just one day after the Supreme Court announced a guiding verdict on prison sentences for young people who commit very serious crimes.
Total Indifference
The sentences for the Tullinge and Västberga murders in southern Stockholm are, as far as is known, the longest handed out to individuals of that age in Sweden.
"It has been about exceptionally serious crimes, characterized by total indifference to other people's lives," said Court of Appeal Judge Kerstin Elserth in connection with the Court of Appeal verdict in December.
Several other individuals who had appealed are also denied a retrial.
Murdered Three
The then 16-year-old boy shot his way into a villa in Västberga in southern Stockholm on October 12, 2023. There, he shot and killed a 40-year-old father of small children.
He then went upstairs and shot the man's wife in the back. She survived but was seriously injured. The woman was holding the couple's two-year-old daughter in her arms. One of the shots hit the daughter, who was lightly injured.
The following evening, the boy took the same approach and broke into a villa in Tullinge south of Stockholm, shooting and killing two women aged 20 and 60. Another woman and three children were in the house.
The 16-year-old was arrested shortly afterwards on his way from the crime scene in a taxi.
The murders are linked to the internal conflict that broke out within the Foxtrot network in 2023. Those who were murdered had nothing to do with the matter.
The Foxtrot network, led by Rawa Majid from Uppsala, has for several years been involved in extensive drug smuggling to Sweden. The network has allied itself with several criminal networks in Sweden, which have assisted Foxtrot in carrying out serious violent crimes.
Between 2021 and 2023, the network was involved in at least four separate conflicts with other gangs, including the Dalen network in southern Stockholm.
In the summer of 2023, an internal split occurred within the network, resulting in a bloody conflict between individuals in Foxtrot. Among other things, the mother of one of the leaders, Ismail Abdo, was murdered in her home outside Uppsala.
Abdo later became a leader in a new, rival network known to the police as Rumba.
Another leading figure in the conflict was shot and killed in Baghdad, Iraq's capital, in early 2024. Three Swedes have been sentenced to death in Iraq for that murder. One of the sentences was later converted to imprisonment.
Source: PM from the National Operational Department (Noa), TT
