Couple guilty of trying to burn parents alive
Published: 27 Feb 12 10:31 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/39352/20120227/
A 28-year-old man and his 26-year-old girlfriend have been found guilty of trying to burn the woman's parents alive in an inheritance plot which they hoped would lead to a life of luxury in sunny Buenos Aires.
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The Swedish pair had already bought one-way tickets to Buenos Aires and planned to flee Sweden after carrying out the plot, the Metro newspaper reported.
The young couple drugged the elderly pair with Sobril in their apartment in Solna near Stockhlm in October, ransacked the flat for valuables, and then set fire to the building in seven separate places.
The hope had been to inherit a summer cottage, life insurance and the apartment.
However, an attentive neighbour noticed the smoke and sounded the alarm, allowing rescue services to save the elderly couple before they were harmed.
The young couple was also charged with giving false testimony after giving police faked witness statements, in which they stated that a relative of the girlfriend had previously threatened to kill the parents.
The 28-year-old man stood as a candidate for the Green Party at the 2010 election although the party has since stated that once the man's views became known steps were taken to expel him.
Last week, the man and woman were found guilty by Solna District Court.
The couple continues to deny the charges and is set to undergo psychiatric evaluations ahead of sentencing, which is scheduled to take place next month, according to Metro.
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"I valet till riksdagen 2010 stod 28-årige Daniel Arrospide Alata som kandidat på miljöpartiets valsedlar. Nu står den miljöpartistiske riksdagskandidaten åtalad för grov mordbrand, försök till mord, grovt rån och falsk tillvitelse.
Daniel Arrospide Alata åtalas för att tillsammans med 28-åriga Rut Patrickson ha försökt mörda Ruts föräldrar i föräldrarnas lägenhet på Johan Enbergs väg i Solna."
Google Translate:
"In the general election in 2010 was 28-year-old Daniel Arrospide Alata as a candidate for the Green Party ballots. Now it stands miljöpartistiske parliamentary candidate charged with aggravated arson, attempted murder, aggravated robbery and false accusation.
Daniel Arrospide Alata prosecuted for working with the 28-year-old Ruth Patrickson having attempted murder of Ruth's parents in the parents' apartment on Johan Enberg way in Solna."
From here: w w w.realisten.se/2012/01/19/miljopartisten-daniel-arrospide-alata-atalad-for-mordforsok/
http : / / danielarrospidealata.blogspot.com/
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The shrink will simply say 'no sane person would attempt to murder their parents. Clearly they are insane, and we must therefore give them trivial sentences, even by Swedish standards'.
6 weeks later, the same shrink will report that they have successfully completed a rehabilitation program where they have demonstrated that they can determine what shape of coloured wooden block fits into the right hole in a box, and so they should be released at once.
I pray that the Swedish justice system will prove me wrong this time.