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Serial rapist gets six and a half years

A 24 year-old man has been sentenced six and a half years in jail for three rapes and three attempted rapes in the Stockholm area.

Published: 9 May 2008 12:25 CEST

The crimes took place between autumn 2007 and January 2008.

Most of the victims were attacked on their way home from a night out. One victim was caught on camera leaving a night bus with the man.

Three days after a particularly brutal rape in Flemingsberg, the man was arrested, tracked down through his mobile phone. The rapist had taken one of his victims’ mobile number and repeatedly texted her, allowing the police to trace his whereabouts.

Because of extensive DNA proof in five of the six rapes it was a straightforward case for prosecutor Nils Lundberg.

The man is not a Swedish national and will be deported after serving his sentence.

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Suspects held after 38-year-old shot dead on Södermalm in Stockholm

Several people are being held after a man in his 40s was shot dead in Stockholm's Södermalm district.

Published: 7 May 2024 06:23 CEST
Suspects held after 38-year-old shot dead on Södermalm in Stockholm

The shooting happened at around 6.20pm on Monday evening and a huge police operation was immediately launched.

Police cordoned off the area around Helgalunden on Allhelgonagatan, which is close to the busy Götgatan street, Skanstull metro station and the Internationella Engelska Gymnasiet high school.

Sweden’s public broadcaster SVT reports that the victim is a 38-year-old man with links to gang crime, although police said it was too early to say whether the shooting was connected to a gang conflict.

Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet reports that one of the suspects is a man in his 20s, with a police record of a series of minor offences but no violent crime convictions. Police said there were other people in custody too, but declined to say what they were suspected of.

Roughly where the man was shot. Screenshot: Google Maps

The shooting happened in front of several witnesses.

“I live 50 metres from the scene and ran downstairs with a blanket and first aid kit. It was nice seeing so many people already there trying to save a life,” a witness told SVT.

“This happened in the middle of the day near the metro where there are a lot of people. This is otherwise a safe area. At the same time, it’s sad no matter where shootings happen.”

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