After the 70-year-old farmer was brutally murdered in his home outside Eslöv twelve years ago, a now 30-year-old man was sentenced to ten years in prison. Another man, who turns 35 this year, was then released for lack of technical evidence.

But at the beginning of the year, the prosecutor asked for a raise in the case and wanted the murder suspects against the freed man to be tried again.

On Friday, the Supreme Court granted the ruling.

- Of course, it's a disappointment. I just talked to my principal. He has been denied ever since he was first heard eleven years ago. He has not been on the scene, he has maintained that all along, 35-year-old lawyer Lars Edman told SVT News Skåne on Friday.

family conflict

It is the 30-year-old man who was sentenced to prison in 2010, who has now provided new information.

But according to the principal's lawyer, this is about information from suspected co-suspects that one must take great care.

- This is about contradictions between parts of a family, says Lars Edman and continues:

- The Supreme Court was of the opinion that this information was sufficiently interesting for them to be tried again. But I do not agree with HD at all that there are reasons for this so far afterwards.

How common is it to rise in a case so far afterwards?

"It's extremely rare," says Lars Edman.

New trials

Now a new trial is expected and the case will be reopened in the way it was then, when it was decided in autumn 2010 in the High Court. It is still unclear when that trial will take place.

In the autumn of 2010, there were a total of four suspects for the murder of the 70-year-old farmer outside Eslöv. The two co-suspects who were not prosecuted last time are now in custody before Lund district court. In that case, the trial is expected to be held this summer, according to Lars Edman.