On March 17 last year, the police were alerted to Nytorgsbacken on Söder in Helsingborg after two people were stabbed. One man, a 23-year-old man, had been stabbed in the heart and later died in hospital. The other man, a 35-year-old, suffered a life-threatening abdominal injury but survived.
A 26-year-old man was arrested and later charged at Helsingborg District Court with murder and attempted murder. But the court instead sentenced him to six years in prison for aggravated assault.
Gets life in prison
The 26-year-old has said that before the knife attack he was attacked by the two men and thus acted in self-defence. The district court held that this had not been refuted and he was therefore convicted of aggravated assault.
The case was appealed and has been heard in the Court of Appeal, which is now reversing the verdict. The 26-year-old is convicted instead of murder and attempted murder and faces life in prison, the Court of Appeal said in a press release.
Other assessment in the Court of Appeal
The 26-year-old's claim that he acted in self-defense is refuted by the prosecutor and it is clear that he was not in an emergency situation, according to the Court of Appeal, which makes a different assessment than the district court.
The man must also pay damages to the employees.