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Former students charged for killing teacher

Swedish prosecutors have charged two former students along with a third accomplice for beating a high school to teacher to death in early April.

The teacher, 54-year-old Tommy Johansson, was savagely beaten and killed in Hofors in eastern Sweden.

According to the indictment, Johansson was subject to severe violence before he died. The trio also stole a computer and the teacher’s cash card before leaving the scene.

Two men and a woman who had previously said Johansson was one of her favourite teachers, are suspected of breaking into his apartment, at which point they began beating and kicking him.

The former students met the teacher outside a pizzeria earlier in the evening before following him to his apartment.

While the precise motive for the crime remains unclear, one theory suggests that the 22-year-old hatched the plan out of jealousy, believing that Johansson was hitting on his former student, the Aftonbladet newspaper reports.

At their remand hearing, the former students admitted to assaulting Johansson, but denied killing him.

One of the men, 22, has been charged with murder, while the 21-year-old woman has been charged with murder and an alternative charge of being an accomplice to murder.

The second man, also 22, has been charged with being an accomplice to murder as well as with protecting a criminal.

“My contention is that a man and a woman together murdered Tommy Johansson and another man was on the scene and is guilty of being an accomplice to murder,” prosecutor Krister Frykman told the Expressen newspaper.

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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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