A Swedish appeals court has upheld a guilty verdict for Nerijus Bilevicius, who faces life in prison for killing a 17-year-old girl in a high-profile murder in western Sweden last summer.
A new sports club which listed murdered Swedish women on its flyers and suggested that the victims might have survived if they'd learned karate skills is facing a backlash.
Inger Rönnbäck, the lawyer of Nerijus Bilevicius, the man convicted of murdering 17-year-old Lisa Holm, has told the regional Skövde Nyheter newspaper that her client is adamant he is innocent of the murder and will appeal.
UPDATE: A 35-year-old Lithuanian man has been found guilty of murdering Swedish teenager Lisa Holm, whose disappearance sparked one of Sweden's largest missing person searches.
The trial of a man accused of killing a teenager whose disappearance sparked one of Sweden's largest missing person searches has started. A 35-year-old man is alleged to have hung the girl in a barn.
The prosecutor in charge of the probe into the high-profile killing of Swedish teenager Lisa Holm said on Monday that the wife and brother of the main suspect were no longer under investigation.
Two people suspected of being involved in the high-profile killing of a missing Swedish teenager this summer are unlikely to face charges, one of the prosecutors for the case has said.
An autopsy has confirmed how teenager Lisa Holm was killed, prosecutors have said. But they have remained tight-lipped about their investigation, which follows one of the largest missing person hunts in Swedish history.
UPDATED: A Swedish court has ordered a 35-year-old arrested on suspicion of murdering 17-year-old Lisa Holm to remain in custody after a hearing on Tuesday.
Police have confirmed that they have found the moped helmet that belonged to Lisa Holm, the 17-year-old who disappeared on June 7th and whose body was found a week later.
UPDATED: Family, friends and community members have attended the funeral of Swedish schoolgirl Lisa Holm, who was found dead after disappearing a month ago.
UPDATED: The two brothers accused of killing missing teenager Lisa Holm are set to remain in police custody, an appeals court in Jönköping in central Sweden ordered on Tuesday.
UPDATE: Three people linked to the murder of missing cafe worker Lisa Holm in central Sweden face at least another week in custody after a court hearing on Tuesday.
Two suspects, believed to be brothers, are being questioned over the murder of Swedish teenager Lisa Holm as police search a new area close to where her body was found.
UPDATED: Three people - one woman and two men - were taken in for questioning on Friday evening. They were escorted from a house about 300m from the café where Holm works.
UPDATED: Volunteers searching for missing 17-year-old Lisa Holm in central Sweden have made an important new discovery, police say. The hunt is the biggest event of its kind organized by the Missing People charity.
