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Holidays delay 16-year- olds’ murder trial

The prosecution of two 16-year-olds for the murder of a 15-year-old girl in the Stockholm suburb of Stureby has been delayed almost two months, because the forensic expert is on holidays.

The reason for the delay, according to the prosecutor, Karolina Lindekrantz, is that the medical legal expert at the National Board of Forensic Medicine (Rättsmedicinalverket) is on holidays and cannot finish the forensic inquiry, a report in the Dagens Nyheter newspaper has revealed.

A 16-year-old boy has confessed to killing the girl on the night of June 6th, and his girlfriend, who is also 16, is charged with incitement to commit murder.

Although the evidence against the accused is already very strong, the accused are still waiting for their trial to begin. Lindekrantz expects proceedings to commence at the end of August.

Claes Borgström, the lawyer who is defending the two accused, has criticised the delay as unacceptable. “Despite that he has confessed it is a big strain for him to be detained according to LVU (the law on the care of juveniles – ‘lagen om vård av unga’),” Borgström told Dagens Nyheter.

“According to the law, crime committed by young people that is punishable by a jail term should be investigated with ‘particular urgency’,” he added.

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LANDSLIDE

Swedish authorities: Worker negligence behind motorway landslide

Swedish authorities said on Thursday that worker negligence at a construction site was believed to be behind a landslide that tore apart a motorway in western Sweden in September.

Swedish authorities: Worker negligence behind motorway landslide

The landslide, which struck the E6 highway in Stenungsund, 50 kilometres north of Sweden’s second-largest city Gothenburg, ripped up a petrol station car park, overturned lorries and caved in the roof of a fast food restaurant.

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Prosecutor Daniel Veivo Pettersson said on Thursday he believed “human factors” were behind the landslide as “no natural cause” had been found during the investigation.

He told a press conference the landslide had been triggered by a nearby construction site where too much excavated material had been piled up, putting excessive strain on the ground below. 

“At this stage, we consider it negligent, in this case grossly negligent, to have placed so much excavated material on the site,” Pettersson said.

Pettersson added that three people were suspected of among other things gross negligence and causing bodily harm, adding that the investigation was still ongoing.

The worst-hit area covered around 100 metres by 150 metres, but the landslide affected an area of around 700 metres by 200 metres in total, according to emergency services.

Three people were taken to hospital with minor injuries after the collapse, according to authorities.

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