The 58-year-old man, who was arrested in late February of this year, deny the offences. However, according to the investigators, he can be tied to the crime thanks to dna-scan, and prosecutor Thomas Ahlstrand has now submitted the indictment to the Gothenburg district court.
that a serious crime will be investigated and clear. And that this could be done within the time that we had on us, ” says Thomas Ahlstrand to the TT.
– the Offence would have been statute of limitations next year.
the Girl was on her way home from school on her bicycle when she was attacked by an adult male and was in a park in Northampton in september 1995. According to the indictment abused 58-year-old girl, among other things, with repeated blows to the head, before he raped her.
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the Girl suffered, inter alia, a fracture of the skull treated at the hospital in five days.
” I believe that the offence is to assess which, roughly, says Ahlstrand, who in the indictment, writes that ”the offender has shown a particular roughness”.
other witnesses to the incident, however, left the offender’s dna, and it is the tracks that eventually led to an arrest – over 23 years later.
During the course of the study, around 350 men topsats without results. But a change in the polisdatalagen from the 1 January in the year made it possible with the so-called familjesökning in the police’s dna register. The search gave a hit on a person close to the now accused man, and when the 58-year-old later self-topsades matched it with the dna from the old crime.
the Dna grooves is also the heaviest part of the evidence against the man, according to Thomas Ahlstrand.
” So it is. We have been looking for other traces of this offender in the investigation, if someone has made the observations or so. It is very possible that he has observed, but it is nothing that we can detect, ” said the prosecutor.
– But he found himself in Sweden and was not on the job, so far we’ve come.
