It was in June last year that the rapper C Gambino was shot to death in a parking garage on Hisingen in Gothenburg.
"The shooting has been characterized as a pure execution and has meant severe suffering for the victim”, says judge Anne Rapp in a press release from Gothenburg District Court.
In her indictment, the prosecutor wanted two of the men to be convicted of murder. But the district court has assessed that the investigation is not sufficient to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the two murder suspects were the ones who carried out the fatal shooting.
Among other things, DNA traces that directly link the two to the parking garage are missing, and no weapon has been found.
Dissatisfied with the verdict
One of the men, a 22-year-old, is sentenced to life imprisonment. His lawyer Sina Safshad is dissatisfied with the verdict.
We believe that the penalty is far too harsh for an accessory. We will appeal this verdict, says Safashad.
Anne Rapp believes that the life sentence was justified.
We have assessed that his role and his actions have had a decisive significance for the fact that this act was carried out – therefore, he gets a different punishment, she says.
For the 20-year-old man who, in addition to being an accessory to murder, is convicted of, among other things, gross protection of a criminal, the prison sentence has been set at 15 years and 6 months. The third man, a 21-year-old, is convicted of being an accessory to murder and sentenced to 12 years and 6 months in prison.
Claims innocence
The man's lawyer Björn Hurtig has spoken to his client, who has expressed relief that the sentence was not life imprisonment.
–But there is a disappointment at the bottom because he has been convicted, because he claims his innocence, says Björn Hurtig.
Prosecutor Shahrzad Rahimi is largely satisfied with the verdict. She writes in an email to TT that the sentences have been partly imposed in line with the prosecutor's demands, even if the court convicted of being an accessory to murder instead of murder.
The youngest of the four defendants is sentenced to ten months in prison for gross vandalism and gross protection of a criminal.
The convicted have denied the crimes.
