Today, the man was sentenced to seven months in prison by Värmland District Court for unlawful persecution. He will also pay more than SEK 30,000 in damages to the woman.

The snapchat messages must have included direct death threats and sexual offenses in the form of pictures of genitals.

The district court's judgment states, inter alia: “ In view of the amount of messages and the content of these - among other things. films and photographs on a gun in connection with threatening and abusive messages with sexual meaning as well as messages stating that the sender is raping children - there is also no reason to question that xx has become very scared and felt a great discomfort ”

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