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Man jailed for 15 years for killing his mother

A 44-year-old man was sentenced to prison on Monday for killing his mother and hiding her body under the deck of a house in southern Sweden.

Published: 8 April 2013 12:40 CEST

The Kalmar District Court found the 44-year-old guilty of murder and disturbing the peace of the dead (brott mot griftefrid).

The man had initially denied the crime, but confessed during the trial. By the end of the hearing, however, he had denied the crime again.

The woman’s body was found last summer under the deck of a house in Nybro, southern Sweden. The son admitted to burying the woman, but claimed that someone else had murdered her.

The verdict was initially scheduled for late March, however the discovery of the convicted killer’s laptop meant a postponement to the case.

The computer was discovered with traces of blood, and a hard drive containing search history detailing scores of hits on websites pertaining to murder.

There were 67 pages viewed about penalties for murder, forensic investigations, homicide during psychosis, and choices of forensic institution.

The man was not found to suffer from any serious psychiatric disorder.

The court ordered the man pay 50,000 kronor ($7,785) in damages to his younger sister, as well as 25,000 kronor to the woman’s widower.

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Over a thousand people join protest against Stockholm attack

The demonstration, which was organised by the Left Party and the Green Party together with Expo, an anti-extremist magazine, was held outside the Moment theatre, where masked assailants attacked a lecture organised by the two parties on Wednesday.

In the attack, the assailants – described as Nazis by Expo – let off smoke grenades and assaulted several people, three of whom were hospitalised.

“Let’s say it how it is: this was a terror attack and that is something we can never accept,” said Amanda Lind, who is expected to be voted in as the joint leader of the Green Party on Sunday.

She said that those who had attended the lecture had hoped to swap ideas about how to combat racism.

“Instead they had to experience smoke bombs, assault and were forced to think ‘have they got weapons’?. The goal of this attack was to use violence to generate fear and silence people,” she said.

EXPLAINED: What we know about the attack on a Swedish anti-fascist meeting

More than a thousand people gathered to protest the attack on a theatre in Gubbängen, Stockholm. Photo: Oscar Olsson/TT

Nooshi Dadgostar, leader of the Left Party, said that that society needed to stand up against this type of extreme-right violence.

“We’re here today to show that which should be obvious: we will not give up, we will stand up for ourselves, and we shall never be silenced by racist violence,” said said.

Sofia Zwahlen, one of the protesters at the demonstration, told the DN newspaper that it felt positive that so many had turned up to show their opposition to the attacks.

“It feels extremely good that there’s been this reaction, that we are coming together. I’m always a little worried about going to this sort of demonstration. But this feels safe.”

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