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Two arrested in Poland for ‘brutal’ farm killings

Two people wanted for the brutal slaying of an elderly farming couple outside of Alingsås in western Sweden have been arrested in Poland.

Published: 17 November 2011 11:15 CET

Two arrested in Poland for 'brutal' farm killings

The two men were arrested on Wednesday night by Polish police, according to a statement from police in Gothenburg.

The two men have long figured in the investigation of the October 19th killings of 69-year-old dairy farmer Torgny Antby and his 71-year-old wife Inger on their dairy farm in Långared outside of Alingsås.

An arrest warrant was issued for them on November 7th.

The couple was set to participate in a choir performance at a care home that day but failed to turn up. A group of friends and neighbours went to the couple’s farm and called police after discovering Torgny Antby’s body in a barn.

His wife’s body was later discovered in the couple’s house by police.

According to prosecutors, Torgny was killed after being repeatedly struck in the head with a hard object, while Inger died of strangulation.

Both victims had been tied up and had tape wrapped around their heads and faces.

The two suspects are also believed to have stolen a safe from the couple’s home.

Two other men who had previously been held during the investigation’s early stages on suspicion of carrying out the double murder have since been excluded from the ongoing probe.

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Sweden's 'snippa' rape case to go to the High Court

Attorney General Petra Lundh criticised the appeals court for “a number of serious miscarriages of justice” in the way it dealt with the case.

The man had been sentenced to three years imprisonment in 2021 after the district court heard how he, in the prosecutor’s words, had “by sticking his hand inside the plaintiff’s shorts and underwear, holding his hand on the the girl’s ‘snippa’ and having a finger inside her ‘snippa’, performed a sexual act” on her.

The girl’s testimony was found to be credible, in part because she had told her mother about the incident on their way home.

But in February this year, the appeals court threw out the conviction, arguing that it was unclear what the girl means by the word snippa, a word taught to Swedish children to refer to female genitalia.

Despite agreeing with the district court that the man had touched the girl between her legs and inserted his finger into her snippa, the court found that it could not be determined whether the girl was referring to her vulva or to her vagina.

If the man had inserted his finger into her vagina, that would have met the standard to be classified as rape. Because the girl said that his finger was “far in”, but could not state exactly how far, the appeals court found that it could not establish beyond doubt that the man had inserted his finger in her vagina and not her the vulva.

Because no lower-grade charges, such as sexual abuse or molestation, had been filed against the man, the appeals court could not consider other offences.

This week, the Attorney General lodged a complaint with the Supreme Court against the appeal court’s decision. Now the Swedish Supreme Court has given the appeals court until April 12 to explain its decision-making in the case.

The Supreme Court has not decided whether it will hear an appeal against the decision to clear the man of rape charges.

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