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Court of Appeal Acquits Teenager of Murder

The Court of Appeal acquits a teenage boy of knife murder of a 16-year-old boy, and instead sentences him for aggravated assault. At the same time, the murder conviction for a similarly aged teenage boy is upheld.

» Updated: 01 October 2024, 21:18

» Published: 01 October 2024

Court of Appeal Acquits Teenager of Murder
Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT

A 16-year-old boy was attacked with a knife in January at a viaduct in Örkelljunga. He was taken to hospital, but his life could not be saved.

Two teenage boys, who were 15 and 16 years old at the time, were convicted of murder at Helsingborg District Court.

The district court assessed that only the 16-year-old had inflicted the knife wounds, but still convicted both of murder.

The Court of Appeal makes a different assessment and convicts the then 15-year-old boy of aggravated assault instead of murder.

"It is not proven that he was indifferent to the fact that the 16-year-old would die from the knife wounds," says Court of Appeal Judge Karoline Fridolf in a press release.

The Court of Appeal states that the sentence corresponds to seven months' imprisonment, but that youth care together with the social services' youth contract is a sufficient intervention considering the long detention time.

The older boy is convicted of murder and, like in the district court, sentenced to closed youth care for two years and ten months.

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