“The hunter who shot the jogger the judgment of”
“the Prosecutor has claimed twelve years’ imprisonment for the Norwegian hunters in the fall, shot a jogging man. It was an attempt on his life, argued the prosecutor – but the hunter was released from custody in anticipation of the judgment, which the Helsingborg district court announces today.”
“– You can interpret it as that they in any case will judge for attempt to murder, ” says the hunter counsel J Andrés Concha to the TT.”
“The 48-year-old hunter admits that he fired the shot from 176 yards away met a 76-year-old man who jogged on a country road one early novembermorgon last year, but claims it was an accident. He thought it was a deer he shot, he repeated over and over again during the trial.”
“the Shot had been lethal, underlined the prosecutor Ola Lavie. He believes that it was not coincidence that the shot took where it did.”
“the Jogger was hit in the hip and has, according to his plaintiff’s counsel, Johan Landén had a lot of pain and had to seek medical care at the 24 occasions afterwards, and then not rehabilitation included. He has on the man’s behalf required 133 600 kronor in damages.”
“If the hunter is not convicted of attempted murder to the public prosecutor that he be sentenced for a particularly serious assault, alternatively legally liable for the bodily injury, the felony.”