It was in september 1995 as an eight year old girl was on the way home from school when she is mugged by a man. The man pulled the girl in a wood, and subjecting her to rough the rape and ill-treatment. The girl was later found, bloody and without his pants at a bus stop.
the Case received enormous attention in the Swedish media. The police were able to secure dna evidence on the girl’s body and searched frantically for the offender.
About 350 people topsades, without results.
this year the law around who can and topsas changed. Now can National forensiskt center (NFC) to make a so-called familjesökning, something that had previously not been allowed.
” We have the topsat very many people in the case, but you can’t topsa all over the world. It gave the ruling in this case is the person who would be able to have a certain kinship with the person we are looking for. The answer might look something like this: ”This could be a father to a brother, a son,” and so on, ” explains prosecutor Thomas Ahlstrand.
the Police could call in a group of people to which they were particularly interested in.
– Then we will have to look at their close relatives. And then we found a man who seemed to sue, so we contacted him. Then he pulled. Then, we felt that there is reason to suspect him, ” says Thomas Ahlstrand, who decided to arrest the man in absentia.
The suspected offender is 58 years old and lives at an address in the west of Sweden.
On February 28, he could be arrested in hawaii and brought to the police headquarters in Gothenburg. The man is now requested in custody suspected of rape committed 24 years ago. And it was in the nick of time. The next year, had the offence is time-barred.
Thomas Ahlstrand is very satisfied with the amendment that made the arrest. He says that they currently only know of one other similar case, where the offender has been arrested after so many years.
, which also concerned a serious crime, I don’t know if it was murder or a serious crime of rape. But even where one could arrest a suspect after a lot of years thanks to the same method, otherwise I have not heard of anything similar, ” says Thomas Ahlstrand.
And continue:
” It is, of course, very satisfactory so far, then it’s not ready by now. But it is a work which begins, ” said the prosecutor, and aimed at the approaching trial.
He said, however, that the dna evidence is very strong. The police have been in contact with the plaintiff, who today is an adult woman.
“She feels dazed, but has gone on to live a normal and happy life,” says Thomas Ahlstrand.