The 53-year-old woman and the man who died had a relationship.
According to the verdict, it was an sometimes heated relationship and both were abused at times.
A blow led to death
According to the woman, the man attacked her on January 4.
He was wearing a knife and the woman has said that the man tried to kill her by, among other things, taking a stranglehold.
"I get hold of the knife and get rid of him", the woman has said in interrogation, but can not explain how it happened when she then stabbed the knife in the man's thigh - a stab that led to the man's death.
Not justifiable violence
The district court believes that the lethal violence the woman subjected to the man was not justifiable, but that it is not proven that she had the intention to kill him.
Therefore, she is now convicted of aggravated assault and causing another person's death by Norrköping District Court.
to prison for four years.