The Court of Appeal believes that the act is such that it must have caused severe suffering for the 35-year-old man.

"The prolonged course of action involving the use of at least a knife, a potato peeler and a cheese knife is also in itself such a brutal act that the act is also to be judged to be particularly reckless."

The Court of Appeal considers that the act is highly aggravating and that the penalty should therefore be set at a life sentence.

The theory of the prosecutor during the trial

It was on May 16, 2022 that an acquaintance found the man in an apartment in Nacksta in Sundsvall and alerted the police. The deceased man was in his 35s and, according to the prosecution, he died after being subjected to external violence with a "sharp-edged" object.

During the main hearing in the district court, prosecutor Lo Jonsson had a theory that the murder was a hunt for tablets as there were signs that the apartment, where the 35-year-old man was found, had been searched

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