The prosecutor begins the trial by describing how she believes Liselotte died at the 46-year-old man's holiday home that evening in October last year. It is a description filled with horrific details. About how Liselotte, after much hesitation, accompanies the 46-year-old suspect to his holiday home outside Kramfors.
There is complete silence in the room when the prosecutor shows a filmed sequence of Liselotte's white jacket at the bottom of the lake. A large rock weighs down the middle of the jacket while the rest slowly sways up from the bottom, the police find the jacket and one of Liselotte's shoes lowered with stones into the lake several days after her disappearance.
Throughout prosecutor Christina Edlund Nilsson's presentation, Liselotte's family sits and fights back tears and on some occasions it breaks for them.
Should explain in interrogation
The 46-year-old is charged with murder, alternatively aggravated assault and aggravated causing the death of another, as well as aggravated breach of grave integrity. According to his public defender, Per Näslund, he completely denies anything except a breach of grave integrity of the normal degree, admitting that he removed Liselotte's dead body.
Monday was devoted entirely to the petitions. As the trial continues with questioning on Tuesday, the 46-year-old will try to explain how he can be innocent of Liselotte's death but at the same time guilty of abducting and hiding her body.
"We will present the circumstances we want to point out to the court. Then it is up to the court to evaluate how they view them, says lawyer Per Näslund.