According to Eksjö District Court, criminologist Leif GW Persson interfered with the Tove trial. According to the court, he made several comments during the trial.

Even a security guard must have heard that he was muttering to himself. On one occasion when, according to the younger woman, the older woman convicted of murder said that she would kill herself if she went to prison, LeifGW Persson said that " yes, she will"."No one has heard"