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Manslaughter

The following articles have been tagged with "Manslaughter":

Agency to probe doc who broke baby’s neck

National: 10 Feb 12
A doctor in central Sweden who broke the neck of an infant during a 55 hour long delivery, is being investigated by the National Board of Health and Welfare. READ »

10-year-old girl stabbed in the throat at school

National: 6 Feb 12
A 10-year-old girl had her throat slashed with a knife outside a school in Gothenburg in western Sweden on Monday morning, according to police. READ »

Two men shot in Malmö

National: 28 Jan 12
Two men were shot in central Malmö on the night between Friday and Saturday, and a suspect was arrested by the police shortly thereafter. All three men are known to have criminal ties. READ »

Cop suspected of 'torturing' accused doc

Society: 25 Jan 12
A police officer who deprived a 57-year-old anesthesiologist of sleep while she was in custody in connection with a high profile case of the death of a prematurely born baby girl is now suspected of professional misconduct. READ »

Average Swede likes sweets, booze, and TV

Society: 19 Jan 12
Despite Sweden's reputation as a home for attractive young blondes, the average Swede is 40+, munches on a weekly bag of sweets, washed down with a glass or two of alcohol, while relaxing in front of the TV, a new report shows. READ »

Swedish doc accuses police of misconduct

National: 5 Jan 12
Police officers who investigated a doctor accused of the manslaughter of a baby at a Stockholm hospital last year are now themselves facing a criminal probe for misconduct. READ »

Man jailed for slaying teen on football pitch

National: 5 Jan 12
A 29-year-old man has been jailed for twelve years for killing a teenager on a football pitch in Stockholm last July in an unprovoked attack. READ »

Small village shaken by suspected murder

National: 3 Jan 12
Police in the small village of Voljakkala, north of Haparanda in northern Sweden, are investigating the suspected murder of a 55-year-old woman, found dead in her flat on Monday evening. READ »

Driver targets police in hit-and-run attack

National: 2 Jan 12
An unknown driver injured a police officer in southern Sweden in a hit-and-run attack, after being pulled over at a routine check on New Year's Eve. READ »

Wounded Swedish teen dies from injuries

National: 1 Jan 12
The 15-year-old boy who was shot in the head and chest in the Malmö suburb of Rosengård, in the south of Sweden, late on Saturday night, has died in hospital from his injuries. READ »

Elk hunter skier killing case to be appealed

National: 31 Dec 11
Prosecutors have decided to appeal the acquittal of a 32-year-old elk hunter who accidentally killed a cross-country skier in December of 2010. READ »

Elk hunter acquitted of killing skier by mistake

National: 29 Dec 11
A Swedish elk hunter who felled her first elk with a single shot that passed through the animal only to hit and then kill a cross-country skier, has been acquitted of manslaughter charges. READ »

Man jailed for kicking mother-in-law to death

National: 24 Dec 11
A man accused of kicking his mother-in-law to death was acquitted on a murder charge by a Swedish court on Friday, but found guilty of aggravated assault and involuntary manslaughter. READ »

Teen shot after running over police officer

National: 23 Dec 11
A 16-year-old-boy was shot by police in Gothenburg early Friday morning after the vehicle the teen was driving hit an officer in what police believe was a deliberate attempt to run the officer over. READ »

Bed-ridden man killed after Facebook post

National: 12 Dec 11
A 55-year-old Swede was found murdered in his home in the country's far north on Saturday, days after having posted on Facebook that he was ill and had lost mobility in his legs. READ »

Nurse acquitted of ambulance call death

National: 30 Nov 11
A Stockholm court on Wednesday acquitted the nurse on trial for failing to dispatch an ambulance in answer to a call, causing the death of a 23-year-old man. READ »

Ambulance call death trial opens in Stockholm

National: 14 Nov 11
A 52-year-old nurse on trial in Stockholm for causing the death of 23-year-old Emil Lindell by not sending an ambulance in response to his calls for help told the court on Monday he was "completely innocent". READ »

SOS Alarm has 'severe flaws': agency

National: 12 Nov 11
A government agency slams emergency services operator SOS Alarm for severe flaws in their judgements of ambulance call-outs, claiming that mistakes may have led to deaths, injuries and increased risk. READ »

Drunk drivers get shorter sentences: study

National: 12 Nov 11
Sober drivers who injure another person in traffic often receive longer prison sentences than drunk drivers, according to new research. READ »

Masked shooter arrested in northern Sweden

National: 4 Nov 11
Swedish police have arrested the masked man, armed with a rifle, who went berserk in the early hours of Friday morning when he failed to gain entry into an elderly couple's home. 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 »

Woman fatally stabbed at her 70th birthday party

National: 30 Oct 11
A woman was stabbed to death in her home in front of friends and family who had come to celebrate her 70th birthday, and her son is suspected for the murder. READ »

Woman brings dead baby to clinic in paper bag

National: 24 Oct 11
A woman turned up at a hospital in southern Sweden on Friday with a paper bag containing a dead newborn baby. READ »

Doc acquitted of having caused baby's death

National: 21 Oct 11
A paediatrician charged for having caused the death of a newborn baby at Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital in 2008 has been acquitted by the Solna District Court in a case closely monitored by the Swedish medical community. READ »

Swedish MPs tout assisted suicide

Politics: 11 Oct 11
A secretive network of Swedish MPs has been formed to push for a legalisation of assisted suicide with the group's founder comparing the issue to the abortion debate in the 1970s. READ »

Dad cleared over baby daughter's death

National: 6 Oct 11
The young Swedish father remanded into custody in September on suspicion of beating his two-month-old daughter to death, has been released after an autopsy revealed she died from the results of a viral infection. READ »

Father gets 18 years for killing 7-year-old son

National: 21 Sep 11
A 53-year-old man who stabbed his 7-year-old son to death in Umeå, in northern Sweden, was convicted on Wednesday to 18 years in prison for murder and unlawful coercion. READ »

'She passed away after the last injection'

National: 15 Sep 11
The trial against a Swedish doctor accused of infant euthanasia entered its second day on Thursday with the mother of the baby describing the care received as "beneath contempt". READ »

Baby 'euthanasia' trial opens in Stockholm

National: 13 Sep 11
The trial against a Swedish doctor accused of infant euthanasia came underway on Tuesday, a case causing concern among the country's medical profession. READ »

Man arrested after death of baby daughter

National: 9 Sep 11
A Swedish man from Örebro, in central Sweden, has been remanded into custody after one of his two-month-old twin daughters died and the other showed signs of similar injuries. READ »

Police probe suspicious mower death

National: 6 Sep 11
Police in Piteå, in northern Sweden, have opened up an investigation into the death of a man who was run over by a rogue lawn mower last year. READ »

Swede charged for 'shooting down UFOs'

Society: 1 Sep 11
A 23-year-old man from central Sweden who thought he was being attacked by aliens from outer space has been charged for firing several live rounds from his apartment window. READ »

Students jailed for killing former teacher

National: 15 Aug 11
The man charged with beating a 54-year-old Swedish schoolteacher to death in April was sentenced to nine years in prison on Monday, with his two accomplices receiving shorter prison terms. READ »

Man charged for shooting fellow hunter

Society: 9 Aug 11
A hunter who shot his friend dead while under the influence of alcohol in September last year has been charged with aggravated manslaughter. READ »

Two women stabbed in Stockholm suburb

National: 29 Jul 11
Police have detained a 28-year-old man on suspicion of having stabbed two 20-year-old women Thursday night in the north Stockholm suburb of Hässelby. READ »

Nurse charged over ambulance call fatality

National: 28 Jul 11
A nurse formerly employed at emergency services operator SOS Alarm has been charged with aggravated manslaughter for refusing to dispatch an ambulance to a dying 23-year-old, the prosecutor has confirmed. READ »

Father remanded into custody over son's death

National: 12 Jul 11
The 53-year-old man suspected of murdering his 7-year-old son in Umeå in northern Sweden on Sunday has been remanded into custody. READ »

Former students face prison for teacher killing

National: 27 Jun 11
The trial of three suspects for the killing of a former teacher in Hofors in eastern Sweden in April ended on Monday, with the prosecutor calling for a long prison sentence for the main defendant. READ »

Man gunned down in south Stockholm suburb

National: 19 Jun 11
A 25-year-old man was shot dead in Fittja, south of Stockholm, on Saturday evening. Police later arrested 32-year-old suspected of involvement in the killing. READ »

Unusually busy night for Sweden's police force

National: 11 Jun 11
The start of the summer holiday season in Sweden was marked with an unusually high amount of criminal activity according to the police. READ »

Man stabbed to death at bikers' meet up

National: 5 Jun 11
A man in his forties was stabbed to death on Saturday night, following a fight at a large bikers' meet up in the south of Sweden. READ »

Young man killed after mass brawl

National: 28 May 11
Three people have been arrested in Borlänge in central Sweden after a man in his twenties was run over and killed after two groups clashed in the town on Friday night. READ »

Hunter charged for shooting elk, killing skier

National: 29 Apr 11
A 32-year-old Swedish hunter who fired a single shot that passed through an elk before hitting and killing a cross-country skier has been charged with manslaughter. READ »

Swedish doc to face trial over baby's death

National: 22 Mar 11
The paediatrician suspected of the alleged mercy killing of a baby at Astrid Lindgren's Children's Hospital in Stockholm in September 2008 is to face trial for manslaughter, the prosecutor decided Tuesday. READ »

Stockholm taxi driver kills man using his car

National: 12 Mar 11
A 37-year-old man died in hospital after being hit by a taxi in a Stockholm suburb. Police believe the man was deliberately run over. READ »

Christer Pettersson: the only man ever tried for killing Olof Palme

Society: 28 Feb 11
An addict with a criminal past, Christer Pettersson remains the only person ever put on trial for the killing of Olof Palme, and while he was exonerated, many still consider him guilty. READ »

Midsummer murderer gets 18 years

Society: 18 Feb 11
A Swedish district court has sentenced a 33-year-old man to 18 years in prison for the murder and mutilation of a 30-year-old acquaintance on Midsummer's Eve last year in southern Sweden. READ »

Swedish girl crushed to death in hospital bed

National: 8 Feb 11
A six-year-old girl has died after she became trapped in a hospital bed at a health care clinic in western Sweden. READ »

Couple's killer sentenced to 13 years in prison

National: 16 Dec 10
A 25-year-old man suspected of killing and dismembering a couple from the Båstad area in western Sweden was sentenced to 13 years in prison on Thursday for murder, manslaughter and disturbing the peace of the dead. READ »

Swedish hunter shoots elk, mistakenly kills skier

National: 6 Dec 10
A single shot fired by a Swedish hunter that first hit an elk continued to travel, hitting a 71-year-old skier and killing him on Saturday, police have concluded in their initial investigation. READ »

Man charged for killing cyclist with car door

Society: 26 Nov 10
A man from Helsingborg in southern Sweden who carelessly opened his car door has been charged with manslaughter for causing the death of an 89-year-old cyclist. READ »

Court hikes penalty for car park killing

National: 24 Nov 10
A Swedish appeals court has increased the penalty for the 24-year-old man convicted of manslaughter in death of a 78-year-old woman who was assaulted during a parking lot dispute in southern Sweden in March. READ »

Swedish man charged for running over, killing wife

National: 15 Nov 10
A man from Landskrona in southwestern Sweden has been charged for deliberately running his wife over with his car and killing her in September. READ »

Hunter shot dead in northern Sweden

National: 21 Sep 10
A 62-year-old hunter was shot and killed on Tuesday afternoon outside of Sollefteå in northern Sweden, according to local police. READ »

Woman run over and killed by ex-husband

National: 3 Sep 10
A woman in her fifties died in Landskrona in southern Sweden on Friday morning after she was hit by a car driven by her ex-husband. READ »

Man jailed for murder of 18-year-old

National: 1 Sep 10
A 22-year-old man accused of killing a 18-year-old woman in Hjällbo north of Gothenburg was sentenced to 16 years in prison on Wednesday for murder and attempted aggravated rape. READ »

Juvenile care for teen girlfriend murder

National: 3 Aug 10
A 16-year-old boy was sentenced on Tuesday to three years juvenile detention for the murder of his girlfriend of the same age. He was also ordered to pay 210,000 kronor ($30,000) in damages to the girl's family. READ »

Boy accidentally shoots grandmother dead

Society: 20 Jul 10
A 12-year-old boy in a community in the Alingsås region in western Sweden accidentally shot his grandmother on Tuesday morning, killing her. READ »

Man arrested over boy's death

National: 15 Jul 10
A 24-year-old man has been arrested in Linköping on suspicion of murdering a two-year-old boy. READ »

Murder suspect moved fiancée's body: court

National: 14 Jul 10
Mats Alm, who was cleared of murdering fiancée Linda Chen, has been found guilty of moving and hiding her body after her death. READ »

Alm freed from custody ahead of sentencing

National: 7 Jul 10
Falun district court ruled on Wednesday to release Mattias Alm, who was cleared of the murder of his partner Linda Chen late in May, from prison while he awaits sentencing on other counts on July 14th. READ »

"Black Widow" sentenced to life in prison

National: 28 Jun 10
A 48-year-old woman dubbed the "Black Widow" has been sentenced to life in prison for murder, attempted murder and aggravated arson in Grängesberg in central Sweden in January. READ »

Man detained over Malmö woman murder

National: 14 Jun 10
A man in his fifties has been detained on suspicion of the murder or manslaughter of a women in their home in central Malmö on Sunday afternoon in what police describe as a "family tragedy". READ »

Alm free to claim fiancée's life insurance

National: 29 May 10
Mattias Alm, 35, is free to claim the one million kronor ($130,000) joint life insurance policy he signed with his 32-year-old fiancée Linda Chen now that a court has cleared him of her murder. READ »

Fiancé not guilty of Linda Chen murder: court

National: 28 May 10
Mats Alm, 35, has been found not guilty in a preliminary ruling by Falun district court of the murder of his 32-year-old fiancée Linda Chen. READ »

23-year-old convicted over car park killing

National: 28 May 10
A 23-year-old man has been found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to 22 months imprisonment in connection with the death of a 78-year-old woman who was assaulted during a parking lot dispute in southern Sweden in March. READ »

Landskrona car park killing trial begins

National: 17 May 10
The trial of a man accused of beating a 78-year-old woman to death in a car park in Landskrona in southern Sweden in March opens in Helsingborg District Court on Monday. READ »

Three found dead in Swedish village

National: 8 May 10
A man and two children have been found dead in a village east of Gothenburg in what police are describing as a family tragedy. A murder investigation has begun. READ »

Landskrona car park killing trial nears

National: 4 May 10
The 23-year-old man held in connection with the car park assault that led to the death of a 78-year-old woman will remain in custody, a closed Lund court has ruled indicating that the trial would take place in less than two weeks. 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 »

Tempers flare at hearing over car park killing

National: 20 Apr 10
A courtroom in Lund played host to chaotic scenes on Tuesday morning as the district court ruled to keep a 23-year-old man in custody in connection with the car park assault that led to the death of a 78-year-old woman. READ »

Landskrona suspect claims accidental death

National: 13 Apr 10
The 23-year-old man suspected of the fatal beating of a 78-year-old woman in a Landskrona car park in March has admitted being at the scene but has claimed that the woman's death was an accident. READ »

Wrong man exposed over car park killing

National: 8 Apr 10
A storm of comments and accusations circulating on the internet in the wake of revelations over the 23-year-old suspect in the Landskrona car park killing has afflicted a man in Denmark who has no connection to the case. READ »

Suspect remanded for Landskrona killing

National: 7 Apr 10
The 23-year-old man suspected of the fatal beating of a 78-year-old woman in a Landskrona car park last week has been remanded into custody on charges of aggravated involuntary manslaughter and aggravated assault. READ »

Suspect arrested over car park murder

National: 3 Apr 10
A 23-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the brutal parking lot assault that led to the death of a 78-year-old woman in Landskrona in southern Sweden. READ »

Murder mystery trial opens in Swedish town

National: 29 Mar 10
The trial of a 34-year-old Swedish man for the murder of his 32-year-old fiancée has opened in Falun in central Sweden, in a case whose intricate mystery has generated massive interest. READ »

Swedish rapper gets life for Hollywood killing

National: 5 Mar 10
A Los Angeles court on Thursday sentenced 35-year-old Swedish hip-hop artist David Moses Jassy, aka Monopoly, to life imprisonment for the road rage murder of a jazz pianist in Hollywood in November 2008. READ »

Palme assassination case to remain open

Politics: 3 Feb 10
The investigation into the 1986 assassination of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme is to remain open indefinitely after the parliament passed a bill on Wednesday abolishing the statute of limitations for murder. READ »

Doctor charged over baby's death

National: 1 Feb 10
The paediatrician suspected of the alleged mercy killing of a baby at Astrid Lindgren's Children's Hospital in Stockholm in September 2008 has been charged with manslaughter. READ »

UK road runner Swede jailed over stabbing

National: 27 Nov 09
A Swedish woman has been jailed by a UK court for the manslaughter of a man she met shortly after she and her twin sister made a dash into oncoming traffic on the M6 motorway. READ »

Baby 'could have died' due to hospital drug error

National: 12 Oct 09
A three-month old baby was mistakenly prescribed a dose of painkillers ten-times higher than the recommended level following an operation at Astrid Lindgren Children’s Hospital near Stockholm. READ »

Doctor vindicated in newborn's death

National: 6 Oct 09
There was nothing wrong with the care given to a newborn baby who died in September of last year at Astrid Lindgren’s Children’s Hospital, according to a report on the incident. READ »

Teen murder case opens behind closed doors

National: 19 Aug 09
The trial of two teenagers charged with the murder of a 15-year-old girl in the Stockholm suburb of Stureby in June began on Wednesday. The trial is set to proceed behind closed doors, after a court decision. READ »

Man remanded in custody for killing wife

National: 18 Aug 09
A man in his sixties has been remanded into custody on suspicion of the manslaughter of his wife. The woman was found in the couple's summer house in Norrtälje near Stockholm last weekend. READ »

Baby girl died of massive overdose

National: 12 Aug 09
The baby which died in an alleged mercy killing at Astrid Lindgren's Children's Hospital in Stockholm was given a massive overdose of pain killers, a new report has concluded. READ »

Teenagers charged with Stureby murder

National: 7 Aug 09
Two Stockholm teenagers have been charged with the murder of a 15-year-old girl who was found in a wooded area in the Stockholm suburb of Stureby in June. READ »

US-based Swede shot dead in Trollhättan

National: 5 Aug 09
A 36-year-old Swede resident in the United States was shot dead during a visit to his family's home in Trollhättan on Tuesday in a suspected murder believed to have been witnessed by the victim's two year-old son. 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 »

Swedish doc could be charged for 'fatal' UK op

National: 14 Jul 09
A Swedish plastic surgeon may face a criminal investigation in the UK after the wife of a famous footballer died last week from complications attributed to a bungled 2002 liposuction treatment. READ »

Suspected double murderer remanded

National: 12 Jul 09
On Friday, a 23-year-old man suspected of murdering a couple near Båstad in southern Sweden in 2007 was remanded into custody after the court granted a retrial of the case. READ »

Newlywed dies after suspicious Malmö fall

National: 6 Jul 09
A 28-year-old woman died after falling out of a third-floor window of a building in Malmö on Sunday. Police have not ruled out the possibility of foul play. READ »

16-year-old murder suspect confesses

National: 20 Jun 09
A 16-year-old suspected of the murder of a 15-year-old girl in the Stockholm suburb of Stureby has confessed to killing the girl. READ »

Confession in killing of teenage girl

National: 10 Jun 09
The 16-year-old boy suspected in the weekend murder of a 15-year-old girl in Stureby south of Stockholm confessed to manslaughter on Wednesday and has been remanded in custody. READ »

Woman nearly drowned in unprovoked assault

National: 30 May 09
A woman was attacked on a beach outside Kungsbacka yesterday by a man who struck her and then repeatedly forced her under the water. The man was later detained on suspicion of attempted manslaughter. READ »

Woman held for attempted murder

National: 20 Apr 09
A woman in her fifties was arrested and detained on Sunday night suspected of stabbing her boyfriend in the stomach in an apartment in central Sweden. READ »

Doctor in baby death case released

National: 9 Mar 09
A paediatrician arrested last week on suspicion of killing a baby has been released on the orders of prosecutors, according to a court service spokesperson. READ »

Welfare board to investigate baby's death

National: 7 Mar 09
The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) is to open its own investigation into the death of a newborn baby at a Solna hospital as the arrest of the attending doctor sparks a storm of controversy. READ »

Court orders doc held over baby's death

National: 6 Mar 09
The doctor suspected of having killed a newborn baby was remanded in custody on Friday on suspicion of manslaughter. READ »

Doctor accused of murdering child

National: 4 Mar 09
A female pediatrician in Stockholm has been detained on suspicion of murder for the alleged mercy killing of a baby girl. The woman denies committing an offence. READ »

Acquittals for suspects in 'Romario' killing

National: 27 Feb 09
All three suspects charged in the stabbing death of 23-year-old Ahmed “Romario” Ibrahim Ali were acquitted on Friday by a Stockholm-area court. READ »

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