The negotiation began at 14:30 with the 37-year-old serial rapist and his defense attorney Anna Carlén connected via link. Just over 45 minutes later, the court announced that the man would be detained with restrictions.
The NN is suspected of rape on probable grounds during the time and at the place specified by the prosecutor in the detention application, says Chief Judge Dag Cohen in the courtroom at Lund District Court.
The man, who denies the crime, sat and stroked his beard when the judge read out the message.
The restrictions are motivated by the risk that he will destroy evidence or commit new crimes. The main part of the detention hearing was held behind closed doors.
— The defense's view is that the evidence is weak and the information is vague, says the man's defense attorney Anna Carlén to TT.
In the man's home
The suspicion concerns rape of a young woman in Hörby municipality in Skåne.
Information was received by the police on Monday, which led to the initiation of a preliminary investigation into rape. On Tuesday, I decided that the suspect should be arrested in absentia, and the police arrested him in a non-dramatic manner a few hours later, says prosecutor Anders Stridh, who is leading the investigation.
The rape is said to have taken place on the evening/night of October 23-24 in the man's residence.
After the man was arrested, interviews were conducted with him and with other persons who I and the police consider to be of interest to the investigation. Some seizures have also been made in the case. Further interviews will now be needed, and the police will go through the seizures made.
Stridh is otherwise tight-lipped about the circumstances and whether the suspect and the plaintiff knew each other beforehand.
High risk of recidivism
The Nytorget man was convicted in February 2022 by the Svea Court of Appeal. There, the district court's sentence of five years' imprisonment for seven rapes, eight sexual assaults, and six cases of sexual harassment was upheld.
In his home at Nytorget in Stockholm, he filmed assaults on seemingly sleeping or unconscious women. The police caught up with him when they found assault films on his mobile phone during an investigation into drug offenses.
Despite repeated misconduct during his prison sentence, and the risk of recidivism being assessed as high, he was conditionally released in March this year after serving two-thirds of his sentence.
The release has outraged private individuals, politicians, and former victims.
