Arboga child murderer seeks right to appeal
Published: 3 Jan 12 16:53 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/38320/20120103/
Christine Schürrer, the German woman who was sentenced to life in prison for murdering 3-year-old Max and his 1-year-old sister Saga, and then attempting to kill their mother Emma Jangestig in 2008, is now applying for leave to appeal her verdict.
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Since the verdict, Schürrer and her legal counsel have been putting together a 17-page application for leave to appeal, which they finally submitted to the Supreme Court (Högsta Domstolen, HD) on Tuesday.
After the initial guilty verdict by the Västmanland District Court in 2008, Schürrer and Ekblad took the case to the Court of Appeals, only to be told the verdict would stand.
At the time, Ekblad argued that there were no clear legal grounds for the conviction, and said he would seek leave to appeal to the Supreme Court.
He said the evidence presented did not meet legal requirements for a conviction and added that there was scope to argue his client had not been found guilty "beyond reasonable doubt".
With the thorough new application, Ekblad believes there is a strong chance the case will be heard by the Supreme Court.
"Otherwise we wouldn't have done it," he told Expressen.
"Now we're hoping for an acquittal."
Christine Schürrer had been in a relationship with mother Emma Jangestig’s then boyfriend, Torgny Hellgren. According to prosecutors, her obsession with her ex-boyfriend served as the motive for the killings of the two children.
Investigators were never able to tie Schürrer to the crime scene with physical evidence. Instead, prosecutors based their case on strong circumstantial evidence.
Despite the lack of fingerprints or DNA evidence, the court ruled that there was "overall convincing evidence" against Schürrer.
A network of people have sought to help Schürrer in her case since the verdict, but Ekblad told Expressen that only he and his client had compiled the new application.
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the past year have been filled with people who were released from prison only to commit worse crimes.-_-x
Euthanasia is the only answer
Ignorance is the worst sin of all.
Well OK it was a circumstantial case - by it depends what you mean by not being able to reach beyond a reasonable doubt - although each piece of evidence was fairly circumstantial - but taken together the patter was strong:
- It was clearly proved that she travelled by train 155km from Stockholm to Arboga on the exact time and day of the murder as she was captured on CCTV and took the train back to Stockholm less that 30 minutes after the murders
- she refused to explain for Police what she was doing that day in Arboga - over 150km from home
- the surviving victim identified her - the children's mother said she had a memory of her her at the house after the attack - in fact the mother's first words when she regained consciousness in hospital was "Tine" - Schürrer's nickname
- Schürrer also owned shoes with the same somewhat unusual pattern found at the crime scene - she was photographed wearing them but they mysteriously disappeared and she refused to explain this properly
- the children were bludgeoned to death with a hammer - a hammer also disappeared from the accused apartment complex at the time of the murder (although this was considered a lower level of evidential value)
- it was clear from a computer analysis that she had been stalking her ex's family searching to fnd out where they lived
- there was also evidence found on her computer about her obsession with her ex-boyfriend and hatred of his new life and family
She has in fact continued to harrass the mother to the murdered children even from prison
It is clear that the woman has severe mental health issues - however while a forensic psychiatric detention was considered she refused to speak to any of the doctors