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Man admits woman’s murder on the phone

A man called police on Friday evening and admitted to having killed a woman in an apartment in Skara in western Sweden.

Published: 13 November 2010 11:25 CET

The man, who is in his thirties, was remanded into custody for the murder on Saturday morning.

Police were dispatched to the apartment in the town after the man had called into emergency services and confessed to having killed the woman, who was in her forties.

The operator kept the man talking on the phone after it had been concluded that there were strong grounds to suspect that a crime had been committed. When the police unit arrived at the home at 7.20pm they found a dead woman and immediately arrested the man.

“It was impressive work by the operator,” said police spokesperson Stefan Gustavsson who confirmed that the arrest was completed without complications.

The man was interviewed during the night in Lidköping and his statements formed the basis of the decision to remand him in custody on Saturday morning.

Police have not yet been able to establish the exact cause of death but have established that the woman was subjected to aggravated assault.

The case has been classified as murder.

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Sweden charges Islamic State woman in landmark trial

Swedish prosecutors said they have brought genocide charges against a woman in the country's first court case over crimes committed by the Islamic State group against the Yazidi minority.

Published: 20 September 2024 07:15 CEST
Sweden charges Islamic State woman in landmark trial

A prosecutor told AFP the 52-year-old woman was accused of keeping Yazidi women and children as slaves at her home in Syria between 2014 and 2016.

She was charged with “genocide, crimes against humanity and serious war crimes” on the grounds that her actions formed part of a broader campaign by the group (IS or Isis) against the Kurdish-speaking Yazidi minority.

The woman, who is a Swedish citizen, is in jail having already been sentenced by a Swedish court to six years in prison in 2022 for allowing her 12-year-old son to be recruited as a child soldier for Isis.

Senior prosecutor Reena Devgun told AFP that while investigating that case, authorities had received witness reports “that told us that she had kept slaves in Raqqa,” the former stronghold of the Islamic State group in northern Syria, prompting further investigations.

“If you take in Yazidis into your household when you are an Isis member or the wife of an Isis member and treat them this way, I argue that you are participating” in the broader campaign against them, Devgun said.

Devgun said the woman had kept nine people, three women and six children, in her home “as slaves”.

The women and children – who were kept in the house for between 20 days and seven months – were among other things made to perform household tasks.

Devgun said they had also been photographed, which the prosecutor argued “was done with the intention that they would be sold off”.

Evidence had mainly been gathered through witness accounts, from the victims and others that had visited the home at the time.

The crimes, which the woman denies, can carry a life sentence in Sweden.

Stockholm’s District Court said in a statement that the trial was scheduled to start on October 7th and was expected to last two months.

Around 300 Swedes or Swedish residents, a quarter of them women, joined IS in Syria and Iraq, mostly in 2013 and 2014, according to Sweden’s intelligence service Säpo.

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