In the documents submitted to the Court of Appeal on Wednesday, Anders Eriksson, professor of forensic medicine, questions the former cause of death. He believes that there is room for an alternative cause of death, such as suffocation caused by Tove's stomach contents.
In the report, he criticizes the final autopsy report and believes that the coroners have drawn too far-reaching conclusions. For example, it is not possible to judge from the findings on the body how many people were involved in the incident. In several parts, he also mentions that findings described in the first, preliminary protocol, are then omitted in the final one.
Criticizing the autopsy protocol
The professor also criticises the coroner's report regarding the timing of Tove's death. The final statement states that the documents received and the investigation findings indicate that Tove died on 16 October last year.
"In my opinion, the findings on the decomposed body do not allow such a precise assessment. At most, the investigation findings can be said to be consistent with the stated time, writes Anders Eriksson.
The pressure may have lasted ten seconds
Anders Eriksson believes that there are no findings to prove that Tove was strangled. According to him, it is not impossible that the pressure on Tove's neck may have lasted for a short time, as the convicted 20-year-old stated.
In April, the accused women were sentenced to life imprisonment for murder and aggravated breach of the grave. The decisive evidence was primarily the information provided by the coroner, who clearly stated that the cause of death was asphyxiation by strangulation.
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In the clip below, we hear what the coroner said in the proceedings in the district court
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In the clip, you can hear an audio recording from the district court when the coroner told what caused Tove's death. Photo: TT/Police preliminary investigation