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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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Nordic justice ministers meet tech giants on gangs using apps to hire 'child soldiers'

Denmark’s justice minister, Peter Hummelgaard, said in a press release that he hoped to use the meeting on Friday afternoon to discuss how to stop social media and messaging apps being used by gang criminals, who Danish police revealed earlier this year were using them to recruit so-called “child soldiers” to carry out gang killings.

“We have seen many examples of how the gangs are using social media and encrypted messaging services to plan serious crimes and recruit very young people to do their dirty work,” Hummelgaard said. “My Nordic colleagues and I agree that a common front is needed to get a grip on this problem.”

As well as recruitment, lists have been found spreading on social media detailing the payments on offer for various criminal services.

Hummelgaard said he would “insist that the tech giants live up to their responsibilities so that their platforms do not act as hotbeds for serious crimes” at the meeting, which will take place at a summit of Nordic justice ministers in Uppsala, Sweden.

In August, Hummelgaard held a meeting in Copenhagen with Sweden’s justice minister, Gunnar Strömmer, at which the two agreed to work harder to tackle cross-border organised crime, which has seen a series of Swedish youth arrested in Denmark after being recruited to carry out hits in the country.

According to a press release from the Swedish justice ministry, the morning will be spent discussing how to combat the criminal economy and particularly organised crime in ports, with a press release from Finland’s justice ministry adding that the discussion would also touch on the “undue influence on judicial authorities” from organised crime groups.

The day will end with a round table discussion with Ronald S Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, on how anti-Semitism and hate crimes against Jews can be prevented and fought in the Nordic region.

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