A method from the Netherlands has for some time been applied in Sweden and so far has given startling results when complex DNA traces have been analyzed.
- It is very likely that the prosecution will increase as we will deliver significantly more results, says Staffan Jansson at NFC.
Strategically confusing DNA
During a trial last year about a murder in Stockholm, the defense's counter-argument was that weapons and even clothes were rolling around among friends.
Thus, DNA does not prove who fired the shots.
- The defendants have done their best to emphasize and exaggerate how much public goods everything is, according to the chamber prosecutor Carl Mellberg who tells In the name of the law that, for example, clothes may be lent to deliberately complicate criminal investigations.
- You can speculate if it has to do with wanting to escape responsibility simply, he says to the program.
In the autumn of 2021, two of the suspects were convicted.
"Incredibly gratifying improvement"
Their crime has been linked to the gang conflict that for several years has hit one of Stockholm's districts hard.
In the name of the law reports that eight murders took place in the area in 2021 - until June this year, one person had been shot dead in the district.
The violence decreased after the trial, according to, among others, the police who spoke to the program.
- It is incredibly gratifying if an area that has been so haunted over a number of years of incredibly serious violence can experience an improvement, says chamber prosecutor Carl Mellberg.