The lawyer requests a few more days of respite to develop the grounds for the appeal and the request for leave to appeal the case.
The convicted 20-year-old continues to deny the crime and in the appeal to the Supreme Court, lawyer Banke emphasizes that it has not been proven that his client committed the accused acts and Banke further writes "in any case, he has been sentenced to too severe a sentence".
It was on July 30 last year that the young woman was found shot to death on the beach at Notviken. Eight shots were fired at the woman and five of the shots hit the woman in the face, the other three in the woman's upper body.