Just over three years ago, a man was shot to death in Årbyskogen in Eskilstuna.

The victim was a man convicted of two murders.

A 35-year-old, who was singled out as a leader in Eskilstuna's underworld, was charged with the murder, but acquitted in the district court.

Allegedly confessed to the murder

On Monday, the case would thus be taken up in the Court of Appeal, with new information from a witness who told that the 35-year-old admitted the murder to him.

The information was not used in the district court, as it had been provided anonymously and they wanted to protect the witness, who himself states that he was a secret informant for the police.

Cleared as an informant

But according to information in the preliminary investigation, his identity was revealed in a small police district, and then spread further in the police station and eventually to prosecutors.

The witness's lawyer Tobias Enochson states in a conversation with SVT that his client was then pressured to appear, and that he should have been told, among other things, that if he did not testify, he would not receive protection.

Liver hidden according to Aftonbladet

The witness has told Aftonbladet that he is now living hidden due to threats.

The suspect's 35-year-old lawyer Jacob Asp reacts strongly to Aftonbladet's revelation.

In a letter to the Svea Court of Appeal, he has requested that the hearing be suspended until a number of measures have been taken, including that the witness be heard "from an objective perspective", that a police officer he believes has provided incorrect information must be heard and that interrogations checked to see if the interrogated tell freely.

Criticism of the investigation

Jacob Asp writes that it has emerged from Aftonbladet's revelation that the witness was influenced by the police and perhaps prosecutors, and that the witness was persuaded to point out the 35-year-old as the perpetrator.

He further writes that the recordings that Aftonbladet published according to his assessment show that the investigation "was not conducted impartially and objectively".

On Friday, the Court of Appeal decided to suspend Monday's hearing.

SVT Sörmland is looking for Eskilstuna's police chief Christer Sjöqvist for a comment on the lawyer's criticism of the police.