On Thursday morning, the verdict came in Gothenburg District Court against the 16 men who were charged in the Old Town case: Four of them get life imprisonment, three are acquitted completely.
The other nine are also sentenced to between one and fifteen years in prison.
"It's so planned"
The men are sentenced for, among other things, aiding and abetting murder and preparation for murder.
That no one is convicted of murder is due to the fact that the prosecutors have not been able to prove which two shot.
- We believe that it should not matter, said chamber prosecutor Linda Wiking afterwards to SVT News.
Lawyer Ingela Hessius thinks that it is possible to discern a signal, a trend, in the latest judgments concerning gang shootings.
- You do not have to be the one who has held the weapon to be sentenced to life.
And that's how they have reasoned here.
Aid to murder, but it is so planned, everyone has, so to speak, done their part for this shooting to take place, she says in Aktuellt.
Sees similarities with other gang targets
Hessius himself has been involved in a case similar to this, a murder in Kungens kurva outside Stockholm where the intended target, just like in the murder in Gamlestad, was a gang leader.
- There you can see this trend now, because there the Court of Appeal sentenced to life.
The district court sentenced to a fixed-term sentence, but the court of appeal sharpened.
The person convicted of the murder as the perpetrator in that case was the driver of the perpetrator car.
- So he has not held the weapon, says Ingela Hessius.
Listen to lawyer Ingela Hessius from Aktuellt in the clip above.