I will never forget her sighs. Tongue. Anxious.

It was the third day of the trial following the shooting of Eric Torell and the court was struggling with the technology. On video link: the female police officer who fired 12 shots - all over her magazine - against a 20-year-old guy with Down syndrome and heart failure.

In the case of Eric Torell, there are neither heroes nor villains. Only losers, as his mother Katarina Söderberg so aptly put it. And it was a bead band of more or less unlikely meetings that led to one of our most notable cases in modern times.

It's like a style study in Murphy's law. Everything that could go wrong on August 2, 2018 went awry.

The door.

In the middle of the night Eric Torell escapes from his dad's apartment in central Stockholm. For some reason, the door was unlocked and Eric manages to get out.

Toy gun.

When Eric Torell escaped from home he had brought a toy weapon - described by the defense as a replica. According to the parents, Eric should have received the toy weapon at the age of five and they also state that he has not played with it in 15 years.

The dangerous man.

Shortly after Eric Torell left the apartment, the police receive a call about an armed man in central Stockholm. When the police strike their systems, they discover a so-called object marking, a warning that they previously intervened with a dangerous man at the current address. The man is suspected of having loaded an explosive charge on his ex-girlfriend's car and must also have been threatening to police.

Information.

Much of the information the patrols receive about the dangerous is incorrect. The man, a drug addict with a large criminal record, is being held on arrest this night.

Commander in chief miss.

Before Eric Torell was shot dead, his father met the chief of staff who is charged with malpractice. Dad told me he was looking for his son who had Down syndrome and escaped from home. In court, the interim manager has explained that he did not think that the ongoing intervention could be about Eric's disappearance.

These are just some of the unfortunate encounters that led to Eric Torell being shot dead.

Did it matter that one of the police officers heard on the radio traffic played in court was the same police who handled the case with the dangerous man just months earlier?

Did it matter that Eric Torell's mother forgot the box under the bed when she cleaned out the toys her son had stopped playing with?

Did it matter that two of the policemen sent on the alert had only been serving for 7 months and 8 weeks respectively?

On Monday, the last trial will begin in the case of Eric Torell, and in the not too long future, we will receive an answer if the court considers that the two police officers and the interim chief who are prosecuted are guilty. Whatever the outcome, it is impossible not to play with the thought - if only one thing in the unlikely event chain had ended differently, Eric Torell might have been alive today.