The man admits the crimes and is sentenced to 4.5 years in prison.

He must also pay damages to the plaintiffs totaling around SEK 370,000.

"It has been a crime of an assault nature against nine different women who were unknown to the man.

The acts took place in the summer, mostly in connection with bathing places.

The man, who is in his 30s, has admitted the acts almost fully but considered that the most serious crimes should not be classified as serious ", the district court writes in a press release.

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The man is now charged with assaulting nine women.

Listen to his defense lawyer in the clip. - On four points, my client himself has picked up the suspicions on the table, says Hanna Lindblom.

Photo: Press photo / Crime scene Sthlm

Several sexual crimes north of Stockholm

The crimes were committed in 2018 and 2019 and mainly in various places north of Stockholm.

The background to the verdict is a DNA trace from a rape in Täby a year ago that led the police to a serious sexual assault in Knivsta municipality two years earlier.

The police could link the events, but not who left the traces behind.

The wife tipped off the police

It was only after the man's wife tipped off the police that he could be linked to the crimes.

As the man has not been punished before, he was not in the police register.

The nine plaintiffs were between 18 and 34 years old when the crimes were committed against them.

The man has been in custody since January 26 this year.