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Drunken Christmas revelries lead to arrests

Society: 26 Dec 11
Many people went overboard in their Christmas merriment this year, with arrests for public drunkenness up across Sweden over the weekend. READ »

Man gets 15 years for 'bearded lady' slaying

National: 8 Nov 11
A 27-year-old man from Umeå in northern Sweden has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for fatally stabbing a 55-year-old woman, who he allegedly thought was a man due to her extensive facial hair. READ »

Crime falls when Sweden 'drinks like Europe'

Society: 2 Nov 11
"Continental" drinking habits among Swedes have had a positive impact on violent crime levels, despite a rising alcohol consumption, according to a report on Tuesday. READ »

'Suspects can claim they were drunk and go free'

Society: 1 Nov 11
The recent acquittal by Sweden's Supreme Court of a man charged with attempted murder because he claimed he was “too intoxicated” to remember the incident, has been slammed by legal experts. READ »

Swedish alcohol monopoly launches 'booze camera' iPhone app

Business & Money: 22 Aug 11
Drunken Swedes can now record their boozed-up antics with a new iPhone app launched on Monday by a subsidiary of the country's state-owned alcohol monopoly. READ »

Fork attack not rape: Swedish court

National: 3 Aug 11
A Swedish court of appeal has ruled that a woman who was penetrated by a grilling fork in a sexual attack is not a victim of rape because she wasn't drunk enough at the time of the incident. READ »

Drunken Swedish sailor forgot his wife was on shore

Society: 3 Jun 11
A Swedish sailor called sea rescue services on Thursday morning believing his wife had fallen overboard when in fact she had never been on the boat. READ »

Drunken Swedish soldiers charged for ambushing group of campers

Society: 6 May 11
Three drunken and uniformed members of Sweden's National Home Guard have been charged for attacking a group of campers in the forests of eastern Sweden. READ »

Swedish cadets groped by female officer

Society: 21 Apr 11
A female officer at the Swedish Military Academy has been suspended after putting her hands down the pants of a junior cadet at a spring dance. She claims she was drugged. READ »

Facebook confession traps Swedish rapist

Society: 15 Mar 11
A 20-year-old Swedish man has been convicted of raping a woman in her sleep after expressing his regret on Facebook. READ »

Treatment, not jail, for drunken Swedes: report

Society: 9 Mar 11
Intoxicated Swedes apprehended by police would be placed in sobriety centres rather than jail cells, according to a forthcoming government report on dealing with substance abuse. READ »

Alcoholic doc allowed to keep practicing

Society: 5 Mar 11
Sweden's top medical ethics body has ruled that a Stockholm-area doctor's alcohol problems are no reason to strip him of his licence to practice medicine. READ »

'Timeout' for Sweden Democrat MP following drunken outburst

Politics: 7 Feb 11
Sweden Democrat MP William Petzäll is taking a timeout from his political duties after police found him early Sunday morning stumbling drunk in the stairwell outside an apartment he shared with his ex-girlfriend. READ »

'Alcolocks' can't be trusted: sobriety group

Society: 21 Jan 11
Ignition interlock devices designed to bar intoxicated individuals from driving cannot be trusted, according to a Swedish sobriety group for motorists on Friday. READ »

'Having sex with scantily-clad women in make-up is not a crime'

Analysis & Opinion: 12 Jan 11
The conviction of Magnus Hedman on charges of buying sexual services elevates absurd prejudices with racist overtones to legal precedent and shows that laws criminialising the purchase of sex need to be reformed, argues liberal commentator and author Jan Söderqvist. READ »

Passenger in 'driverless' car charged for drunken driving

Society: 12 Jan 11
A 29-year-old man from northern Sweden has been charged with drunken driving despite not having been behind the wheel when officers stopped the vehicle. READ »

Swedish mass murderer gets four more years

National: 21 Dec 10
Swedish mass murderer Mattias Flink, convicted of killing seven people, is set to be released in 2019 after the appeals court extended the term of his life sentence from 32 to 36 years. READ »

'Alcolocks' for all new cars: Social Democrats

Society: 12 Nov 10
The Social Democrats have proposed that all new cars sold in Sweden be equipped with ignition locks to prevent a vehicle from starting if the driver is intoxicated. READ »

'Sleepwalking' Swede beats drunken driving charges

Society: 1 Nov 10
A 51-year-old Swedish man has been acquitted of drunken driving charges after a court couldn’t rule out the possibility that the man was asleep when he got behind the wheel. READ »

Stockholm acts to block drunken bus drivers

National: 8 Sep 10
Stockholm public transport operator SL will install ignition locks on all of its buses within the next two years, ensuring drivers who have been drinking can't start their vehicles. READ »

Two candidates caught buying sex in union flat

Politics: 19 Aug 10
Two Social Democratic election candidates from central Sweden were caught by police having sex with prostitutes in a Swedish Trade Union Confederation (Landsorganisationen i Sverige, LO) flat in Stockholm. READ »

Brutal murder in Stockholm suburb

National: 14 Aug 10
A 43-year-old man in Solna has been arrested for murder after a man was shot in the face in the stairwell of an apartment block on Friday afternoon. READ »

Mass murderer should stay in jail: prosecution

National: 27 Jul 10
Although mass murderer Mattias Flink's life sentence was commuted to 32 years earlier this month, the prosecution wants Flink stay in prison. READ »

Mum of 11 seeks alcohol smuggling jail pardon

Society: 26 Jul 10
A mother of 11 children sentenced to prison for alcohol smuggling and the illegal sale of alcohol is seeking a pardon to avoid jail time. READ »

Patient at detox gets drunk on Christmas gift

Society: 20 Jul 10
A patient at a detox treatment centre who received aftershave for Christmas was later taken to hospital after becoming intoxicated from drinking the present, which contained alcohol. READ »

Mass murderer could be released in five years

National: 7 Jul 10
Swedish mass murderer Mattias Flink's life sentence will be commuted to 32 years in prison and he could be released in just over five years, Örebro District Court ruled on Wednesday. READ »

Mass murderer seeks release date again

National: 30 Jun 10
Swedish mass murderer Mattias Flink, who shot and killed seven people in Falun in central Sweden in June 1994, claimed on Wednesday that he reflects on his crimes "every day" as proceedings began to consider limiting his life sentence. READ »

Police busy on alcohol-soaked Walpurgis Night

National: 1 May 10
Police across Sweden were kept fully occupied on Friday as cells filed up amid traditional Walpurgis Night excesses. READ »

Rowdy prison service Christmas party prompts police response

Society: 5 Jan 10
Police were called to a Christmas party thrown by Swedish prison personnel in Härnösand in northeastern Sweden after the festivities spiraled out of control. READ »

Christmas chocolate thieves caught red handed

Society: 24 Dec 09
While many a Swedish Christmas office party end in hangovers and bad judgement, the holiday revelry of one company from Växjö in southern Sweden ended with a night in jail after a chocolate robbery gone wrong. READ »

Every third driver texts behind the wheel

National: 21 Dec 09
Every third Swedish driver occasionally reads or sends text messages while behind the wheel, according to new Sifo statistics. Experts say that texting can impair driving ability even more than extreme intoxication. READ »

Inebriated elk terrorizes streets of Södertälje

Society: 9 Dec 09
A drunken elk reportedly attacked a pedestrian in the Hölö district of Södertälje south of Stockholm on Tuesday, prompting a response from police. READ »

Two charged with rape of 16-year-old

National: 4 Dec 09
Two men, aged in their twenties, have been charged with the rape of a 16-year-old girl in Höör, north of Malmö. The men are accused of forcing their way into a toilet and then taking turns to rape the girl. READ »

Rape acquittals because girl 'not helpless enough'

National: 6 Nov 09
Four men charged with gang-raping a 17-year-old girl have been acquitted by a Swedish court because prosecutors were unable to prove that the girl was in a helpless state at the time of the incident. READ »

Boozy antics cost Swedish major his job

National: 18 Sep 09
A Swedish major serving in the Democratic Republic of Congo has lost his job following a bout of excessive drinking and sexual relations with a local woman. READ »

Teen convicted for murder of 86-year-old

National: 3 Aug 09
A 19-year-old Swedish man was sentenced to nine years in prison on Monday for having beaten an 86-year-old man so severely that he died several weeks later. READ »

Couple sues municipality for Hultsfred 'inferno'

Society: 1 Aug 09
A couple from Hultsfred in southern Sweden is demanding 38,000 kronor ($5,000) in compensation from the local municipality to cover 19 years worth of disturbances associated with town's annual music festival. READ »

Drunken Swedish soldiers in armed Kosovo kerfuffle

Society: 3 Jul 09
A shot was fired when two drunken and armed Swedish soldiers got into a fight with local residents in Kosovo, prompting an investigation by Sweden’s Armed Forces. READ »

Convicted murderer suspected in new killing

National: 22 Jun 09
A 36-year-old man suspected of murdering a woman on Kungsholmen in Stockholm at the weekend was on furlough from a lengthy prison sentence at the time of the killing. READ »

An uncommonly calm Valborg

National: 1 May 09
Beefed up security efforts on Walpurgis Night paid off this year. Police and parents on patrol, piles of confiscated liquor and teenagers escorted home resulted in a Valborg without major incident. READ »

Emergency operator mistook choking man to be drunk

Society: 24 Mar 09
Sweden’s emergency service telephone system, SOS Alarm, has been reprimanded after an operator mistakenly judged a man to be drunk when in reality he had passed out from choking on food. READ »

Swedish police officer drunk on duty

National: 17 Mar 09
A Swedish police officer faces a warning after being intoxicated in uniform while on official business. READ »

Dogs attack 4-year-old girl

National: 5 Feb 09
A four-year-old girl was taken to hospital in Stockholm after she was attacked on Thursday afternoon by two dogs. READ »

'One-eye' defence fails for drunken driver

Society: 30 Oct 08
A Swedish woman stopped by police for driving while intoxicated did her best to get officers to turn a blind eye toward her offence. READ »

Sweden contemplates alcohol locks for drunk drivers

Society: 10 Oct 08
A new form of punishment for drunk drivers under consideration in Sweden would allow some offenders to keep their driver’s licences provided they installed an alcohol lock on their vehicles. READ »

Tattoo thieves indicted for scissors attack

National: 20 Aug 08
Two men have been indicted for forcefully attempting to cut away a tattoo belonging to a 32-year-old man in Kalmar, south-east Sweden. READ »

Drink driving pensioner in double trouble

Society: 4 Aug 08
Police in western Sweden must have thought they were seeing double on Sunday night when they picked up the same pensioner for drunk driving twice in the space of four hours. READ »

Naked Swedish couple assaulted by drunken Aussie in Scotland

Society: 31 Jul 08
A pair of vacationing Swedes had their romantic getaway in Scotland interrupted earlier this week when a drunken Australian sheep shearer broke into their hotel room. READ »

Pair held for using scissors to remove man's tattoos

National: 29 Jul 08
Two men were arrested on Monday in Kalmar in southern Sweden on suspicions of assault for using a pair of scissors to cut away another man’s tattoos. READ »

Swedish teens shun condoms and cigarettes

Society: 25 Jun 08
Swedish teens drink and smoke less than their peers in most other countries, but when it comes to sex, young people in Sweden are far from being the most careful. READ »

Drunken officer drove with bottle of Jägermeister in his lap

National: 11 Jun 08
A police officer from Umeå in northern Sweden has been indicted on suspicion of driving while heavily intoxicated after being stopped with an open bottle of Jägermeister in his lap. READ »

Schenström denies sloppy behaviour

Politics: 8 May 08
Former State Secretary Ulrica Schenström has handed in a written explanation to the government’s Constitution Committee following her resignation after a much-publicized night on the town with a journalist last autumn. READ »

Drunken axe-man arrested after dramatic car chase

National: 30 Apr 08
A 45-year-old man was arrested early Wednesday morning after attacking another man with an axe and then leading police on a wild car chase in northern Sweden. READ »

Engla's killer admits to a second murder

National: 13 Apr 08
The 42-year-old suspected of having kidnapped 10-year-old Engla Höglund has confessed to killing the girl and to killing a 31-year-old woman back in 2000. READ »

Civil servant showed up drunk to deportations

National: 20 Mar 08
An employee from Sweden’s Prison and Probation Service showed up to deportation proceedings under the influence of alcohol on several occasions. READ »

Principal punched by drunken teacher

National: 19 Mar 08
A school in Västerås was the scene of an unusual school hall scuffle. READ »

Man gulps his way out of drunk driving citation

National: 28 Feb 08
A suspected drunk driver with a blood-alcohol level ten times over the legal limit was released after claiming he got drunk only after arriving home. READ »

Swedish politicians propose alcohol-free Riksdag

Politics: 2 Jan 08
Alcohol is a part of every day life for many Swedish politicians, causing some members of parliament to suggest better guidance as to when drinking on the job is appropriate. READ »

American hip hop star arrested in Stockholm

Society: 14 Dec 07
American hip hop artist Ju-Ju from The Beatnuts was arrested and taken into custody in Stockholm on Thursday night. READ »

Swedish businesswoman had child with 14-year-old boy

National: 11 Dec 07
A woman who bore the child of a 14-year-old boy has been sentenced to six months in jail READ »

Scores arrested during Valborg festivities

Society: 1 May 07
Sweden's Valborg, or Walpurgis, celebrations lived up to expectations on Monday night with disorder and drunkenness reported across the country. READ »

Sahlin: Sweden Democrats 'misogynistic and xenophobic'

Politics: 20 Apr 07
On Thursday evening, Mona Sahlin became the latest representative of a parliamentary party to join in a televised debate with the leader of the Sweden Democrats, Jimmie Åkesson. READ »

Swedes bigger boozers than immigrants

Society: 17 Jan 07
First generation immigrants drink in greater moderation than their new hosts, says study. READ »

Expressen editor guilty of Persbrandt libel

National: 24 Nov 06
A jury has found Otto Sjöberg, editor of tabloid Expressen, guilty of defamation for a series of articles in which the paper made claims that actor Mikael Persbrant had suffered from alcohol poisoning. READ »

More drug users behind the wheel

Society: 30 Aug 06
The number of people driving while under the influence of drugs has shot up in the past decade. Police say 7,000 people were discovered intoxicated on Sweden's roads last year. READ »

Bodström turns on road killers

Politics: 7 Jul 06
People who cause fatal car crashes could face tougher sentences under plans unveiled by justice minister Thomas Bodström. The news comes after criticism of lax punishments for drink drive killers. READ »

Man arrested over Tensta bomb

Smörgåsbord: 25 Jun 06
Stockholm police have removed what appeared to be a bomb from a man in the suburb of Tensta. He said he had been kidnapped for three days. A man has been arrested and another is being hunted. READ »

Man shot dead by Swedish police

National: 10 Jun 06
A 45 year old man was shot dead by police in central Falkenberg on Saturday afternoon, after attacking officers with a knife. READ »

Ferrari smash Swede denies charges

National: 18 Apr 06
A Swedish video game exec was charged on Monday with grand theft auto for allegedly stealing a million-dollar Ferrari Enzo and then destroying it in a high-speed crash in Los Angeles. READ »

Reported rapes soar after law reform

National: 18 Jan 06
The number of rapes reported in Sweden last year increased by 32 percent compared to 2004, largely due to the adoption of tougher sex crime legislation, according to official data published on Wednesday. READ »

Dismay over drunk killer sentence

National: 20 Oct 05
A drunk driver who killed a baby and her grandmother in 2003 should only serve 18 months in prison, Sweden's Supreme Court decides. The law needs toughening, say politicians. READ »

Vodka taster not guilty of drunk-driving

National: 22 Feb 05
After testing 40 different types of vodka a senior employee of Vin & Sprit is stopped by traffic police and found to be somewhat over the limit. But the appeal court releases her on the grounds that "she had not intended to become intoxicated". READ »

Vin & Sprit staff investigated in bribery scandal

National: 28 Oct 04
Plenty of booze news this week as the Systembolaget corruption scandal grows and grows. And after 'time out' following a drunken brawl, disgraced MP Per Bill tries to sneak quietly back to work. No chance. READ »

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