Girlfriend-strangler given 16 years in prison
Published: 13 Apr 12 14:25 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/40252/20120413/
A 52-year-old man from Ystad in southern Sweden, convicted of murdering his 25-year-old girlfriend, was sentenced on Friday to 16 years in prison.
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The man claimed in court that it “must have been someone else” who took his girlfriend’s life, as he was rendered unconcious shortly before the incident occurred.
He explained that there was a knock at the door, and that the woman went to open it. Then, the man claims he lost consciousness and didn’t wake until the arrival of the police.
However, the Ystad District Court believed that the man had deliberately strangled his girlfriend.
The man’s teenage daughter, who was in the apartment with her own one-year-old child at the time of the murder, had explained earlier that her father had tried to strangle his partner on another occasion.
The daughter also made a number of emergency text messages to her mother and her brother immediately before the murder, stating that her father was abusing his girlfriend.
The murder may have been triggered by the fact that the woman had planned to leave the man and move elsewhere.
The man was also sentenced to pay 160,000 kronor ($23,671) in damages to the family of the victim.
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16 yrs is a lot for Sweden. In the States he would be in for life or put on death row, how sick and evil is he.
Apparently life is not worth much in Sweden.
Of course all immigrants from any region are not all whackadoodle. But politicians and MV have done a good job of importing whackadoodle, violent people. Now we all pay the price, monetarily and socially. How many people suffer and die beause politicians use healthcare funds to import, house or jail people? I guess such social division and violence promises politiicans and state media well-paid jobs for years to come.
I wonder if the daughter's story that the woman previously had to fight off a strangulation attempt was ever reported to police, and if anything was done at the time to make her life safer.
And once again I wonder why the fine is so insultingly trivial. Why not strip the vommit bag of his entire net worth, whatever that is, and divide it 2 ways: 1) victim's family, and 2) government of Sweden, who will have to pay for this scum bag's toilet paper and cable TV for the next 16 years. And if his net worth is too little to be of any use, then hard labour behind bars to pay back his debt to the family of the victim, and the state.