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Man charged for murder of Swedish woman in UK

A homeless Uganda-born man was on Saturday charged with murdering a Swedish woman whose body was found next to a road in Britain, police said.

Published: 22 June 2008 09:38 CEST

Jamal Bakhit, 24, will appear before magistrates in Highbury Corner, London, on Monday accused of killing Rahmona Ahmedin, 23.

Her body was found on Wednesday by a lorry driver in a lay-by at Hinxton in the eastern English county of Cambridgeshire, police said.

The victim, who lived in London, had been stabbed and her body placed in a suitcase that was set on fire.

She had been reported missing on June 14.

A post-mortem examination gave the cause of death as a stab wound to the chest.

Bakhit was arrested on Friday after walking into a south London police station.

“He was no stranger to her, and we think that she was murdered in her home,” said a Metropolitan police spokesperson to news agency TT. Police believe that he may have been her boyfriend.

Police were unable to comment on whether Bakhit had confessed to the crime or how long the woman had been living in the UK.

“I can confirm only that it is a woman with a Swedish passport,” said detective inspector Phil Rickells of the Metropolitan police.

The Swedish foreign office were able to confirm later that the woman emigrated from Sweden four years ago.

British Interpol contacted the Swedish police on Friday seeking help to inform the murdered woman’s next of kin.

“They asked for our help to forward the news of her death to her family, and we have done so,” said Linda Widmark of the Swedish national police.

POLITICS

‘A group of Nazis’: Masked men attack Swedish anti-fascism meeting

Several masked men burst into a Stockholm theatre on Wednesday night and set off smoke bombs during an anti-fascism event, Swedish police and participants said.

Published: 25 April 2024 06:08 CEST
'A group of Nazis': Masked men attack Swedish anti-fascism meeting

Around 50 people were taking part in the event at the Gubbängen theatre in a southern suburb of the Swedish capital, organised by the Left Party and the Green Party.

“Three people were taken by ambulance to hospital,” the police said on its website, adding that it had no information about the injuries suffered.

According to the Expo anti-racism magazine, which had been invited to give a presentation at the event, “a group of Nazis” came into the theatre foyer just before the event was to begin and threw smoke bombs into the hall.

“The Nazis attacked visitors using physical violence… (and) vandalised the premises before throwing a type of smoke bomb that filled the entrance hall with smoke,” Expo wrote on its website.

“It’s terrible that a meeting organised by the left-wing party has been attacked,” said Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, quoted by the TT news agency.

“This type of hateful behaviour has no place in our free and open society,” he said, adding that he had contacted the party’s leader to express his “deepest support”.

All of Sweden’s political parties denounced the assault as an “attack on democracy”, TT said.

Left Party leader Nooshi Dadgostar told public broadcaster SVT that an “open event, for equality among individuals” was “violently attacked by those who seemed to be Nazis”.

She also called on “all political forces” to fight the “far right that threatens our democracy”.

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