Prosecutor Stina Sjöqvist has demanded at least six years in prison for the man, while his defender Ulf Holst, who has been involved since the first trial that took place in 1998, believes that he should be acquitted completely.

The man has continued to be detained after the trial pending today's verdict.

Modern DNA tracking can lead to convictions

It was in 1996 that Malin Lindström boarded a bus in Örnsköldsvik to go and visit a friend, but she never showed up.

Her body was found six months later in the forest in the small community of Husum.

There you could secure DNA from Malin's trousers, but the technology of that time did not enable an analysis.

But in 2020, the National Forensic Center, NFC, was able to create a new DNA profile and the case was raised by the Supreme Court, whereupon they could match it against the 44-year-old and arrest him again, suspected of the murder.

The verdict in the Court of Appeal for lower Norrland is expected to come at 11.00 on Tuesday.

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Malin Lindström, 16, was found murdered in a forest area in Husum in the spring of 1997. She disappeared without a trace six months before after a bus trip to a friend.

Photo: SVT