Information: The suspect confessed to the murder of his ex-wife

2022-05-05T08:42:11.174Z

The man who is suspected of pushing a woman into a mining hole outside Norberg is said to have confessed to the murder of his ex-wife shortly before the act. Now SVT can also tell that the man's defense lawyer previously represented his ex-wife - the year before she disappeared. The lawyer Maria Wilhelmsson therefore requests to be allowed to leave her assignment due to a dispute.

At the end of 2015, the now detained man in Norberg with his then wife and three children will come to Sweden from Afghanistan.

They have their applications for residence permits rejected but appeal the decisions.

In conversations with the Swedish Migration Agency 2018, the wife states that she is afraid of her husband and that she no longer wants to live with him.

Shortly afterwards, in February 2019, he was reported for two cases of unlawful threats against his wife.

The man is arrested but released the same day.

The ex-wife also applies for a restraining order for her and the children, but the application is rejected on the grounds that the husband has not previously been prosecuted for crimes against relatives.

Represented by the man's lawyer

The plaintiff's assistant in the case was then Maria Wilhelmsson, the same lawyer who now represents the man in Norberg.

Now she is requesting to be dismissed from her assignment due to a dispute.

"During the investigation, circumstances have emerged that may mean a conflict of interest for the undersigned," she writes in an email to the district court.

SVT has sought lawyer Maria Wilhelmsson for a comment.

Reported missing by the children

At the beginning of 2020, the children's mother disappears without a trace.

According to information to SVT, a police report about the woman's disappearance must have been made by the children themselves.

The police do several investigations but the woman is never found.

According to information to SVT, the man must have confessed to the murder of his ex-wife before he is suspected of raping and pushing another woman into a mining hole in Norberg last week.

According to information, the motive in Norberg must have been a failed courtship.

The man is also suspected of having returned to the scene to throw stones at the woman in the hole.

The man denies the allegations.

"Should have made itself known"

According to SVT's source, the ex-wife had been missing for a short time before she was reported missing.

She had previously received a decision on deportation, but it was only after she disappeared that the Swedish Migration Board decided that the deportation would be carried out.

- If she deviated because she did not want to be deported, she should have made herself known now after the Swedish Migration Board's new position on Afghanistan, but she has not, says a source with insight into the case.

The police are investigating the disappearance

The suspect in Norberg has given several reasons why he no longer lives with his wife.

Among other things, he is said to have said that she had left him, or that she had been placed elsewhere.

According to documents that SVT has read, the ex-wife was registered at an address in Surahammar after she lived in Norberg.

It is the same municipality that the police are now assuming when they investigate a disappearance from the end of January 2020.

Javascript is disabled

Javascript must be turned on to play video

The browser is not supported

SVT does not support playback in your browser.

We therefore recommend that you switch to a different browser.