Two young men were found shot to death in a basement room last April, and two men were charged with, among other things, two cases of murder. According to the prosecutor, the background to the murders is a conflict over drug sales in the area.

The district court sentenced one of the men to life imprisonment while the other man was acquitted. The life sentence convicted, as well as the prosecutor who wanted the man who was released to be convicted of murder. But now both men were released from the murder charges or alternatively assisted with murder. The High Court does not consider that the Prosecutor's evidence is sufficient.

According to the High Court, it is not possible to link any of the persons to the crime scene, nor do they consider it to be proven that they participated in the planning of the murders. However, according to the court, a third person could have been convicted of the murder, but that person died shortly after the murder. The High Court writes that it is proven that the two defendants helped the third person before the murder, but it is not proven that they understood or even suspected what would happen in the basement.

According to the indictment, the suspected men had sued the victims, and then forced them into a basement room in a multi-family house near Sätra city center where they were shot dead.

The High Court has, like the district court, sentenced one of the accused persons for drug offenses, violations of the Arms Act and violations of the Flammable and Explosive Goods Act, serious crime. The High Court has set the sentence for imprisonment for two years and six months.

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See the long report SVT Stockholm did in 2019 about the double murder in Sätra.

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