The crimes for which the man has been charged for are a breach of civil peace, a serious breach of civil peace, serious fraud, and falsification of documents.
Because of the length of time that the woman kept stored in the freezer and the fact that the man has used the freezer for other purposes, such as for example storing food, the breach of grave privacy is considered a serious charge.
‘Every time he opened and closed the freezer, it violated the deceased’s grave peace’, explained Karlsson.
The suspect has been in custody since mid-March this year after a dead woman was found in a home in the Värmland County town of Årjäng.
He is suspected of having access to the woman’s accounts and thereby proceeding to claim her pension. According to prosecutor Karlsson, this fraud is serious as it was systematic and involved approximately SEK 1.3 million.
Transactions were found by investigators to have taken place monthly for 62 months, from January 2018 to February 2023.
Initially, the preliminary investigation also included suspicion of murder, but these suspicions were dismissed in mid-June when the prosecutor found nothing in the investigation that could prove that the man allegedly killed the woman. However, the man himself claimed to have placed the woman in the freezer in 2018.
The man was found to not be seriously mentally ill
In mid-June, the Swedish Medical Examiner’s Office reached the conclusion that the suspect was not seriously mentally ill. As Karlsson pointed out to SVT: ‘That is something that affects what penalty he can receive’.
The man is also not suspected of having suffered from mental illness at the time of the suspected murder and can therefore be sentenced to prison.
His lawyer Stefan Liliebäck believed the result was surprising: ‘There has been a small mental examination in the past, where a doctor suspected that he might suffer from a serious mental disorder. Therefore, it is surprising that another doctor concluded that he does not’, he concluded.
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