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Honour killing brother gives account of murder

The brother of a man convicted of a so-called honour killing in Högsby, southern Sweden in 2005, has told social workers more about who actually committed the murder.

Published: 13 July 2010 18:38 CEST

Only one person was ever convicted of the murder of 20-year-old Abbas Rezai, who was in a relationship with the murderer’s sister. Both the district court and the appeal court ruled that the convicted man could not have committed the crime alone.

The 15-year-old brother of the man convicted is reported by several newspapers to have been taken into state care after claiming to have felt threatened by his family, and has told social workers exactly how his sister’s boyfriend was murdered.

The boy’s older brother has now served his four year sentence in a youth detention centre. He is due to be deported, but the deportation to Afghanistan has been put on hold while he seeks a pardon from the Supreme Court.

The victim was murdered using hot oil, knives and blunt instruments. The Court of Appeal classed the crime as an honour killing.

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POLICE

‘It is very serious’: Swedish PM vows to act after claims of police leaks to gangs

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson expressed concern of reports in newspaper Dagens Nyheter of police employees dating and leaking information to gang members.

Published: 30 April 2024 05:59 CEST
'It is very serious': Swedish PM vows to act after claims of police leaks to gangs

Sweden has struggled to contain a surge in violence in recent years as criminal gangs feud for control of drug markets, with bombings and shootings recorded weekly.

Kristersson’s comments followed a report by newspaper Dagens Nyheter (DN) that claimed to have found multiple instances of police employees leaking sensitive information about ongoing investigations to criminals.

In some cases, the police employees allegedly were in intimate relationships with gang members to whom they leaked information.

According to DN, which published the report over the weekend, in four cases the leaks – which included information about enemies of the gang member involved in the relationship – preceded revenge attacks, including murders.

At least 30 employees had for different reasons been considered “security risks” and either resigned or were forced to quit, the newspaper reported.

DN said that in several cases, criminals had begun “sexual relations with strategically selected police officers”.

Kristersson on Monday told news agency TT that it was “very concerning information”.

“There are many great risks and one is that trust in police declines, that one gets the idea that mafia-like methods are used to infiltrate law enforcement,” the head of government said.

“It is very serious and we need to address it,” he continued.

Kristersson said that purely based on the initial report he could not say whether it constituted a threat to national security or not.

“But the mere suspicion of these types of connections are damaging,” he told the news agency.

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