The Court of Appeal frees 73 year old woman from murder suspect – Swedish Radio

The Court of Appeal frees 73 year old woman from murder suspect – Swedish Radio

The 73-year-old Gothenburg woman freed even in the Court of Appeal from murder allegations. She was charged with murdering her husband with a stun gun in autumn 1995 outside Stromstad.

One autumn morning in 1995 to meet the 73-year-old woman and her husband on a solitary path at the couple’s farm outside Stromstad. She and the man is then in an infected Divorce .

According to the Court of Appeal so dying man in connection to that he meets the woman of the forest where the path.

But it is not possible to say exactly what happened between those two and it’s one of the reasons that the woman is freed from mordankagelserna.

According to the prosecutor murdered woman her husband using a stun gun, and after the two had fought. But according to the Court of Appeal found no evidence that a stun gun was used and it is not possible to say whether the man died from a stun gun was used.

Court of Appeal wrote in his judgment that there is some support in questioning the woman to have used the stun gun, but those tasks are varied and any stun gun has not been found.

“Although there is some support in questioning the information provided regarding the woman should have used the stun gun so these data have varied and any stun gun has not been found. Similar to the district court noted Court of Appeals that it is about an event that took place for more than 18 years ago and that the risk that witnesses’ recollections were affected during elapsed time is significant, “writes the court of appeal of the judgment.

Woman denies murder charges and freed then. But there is disagreement between courts that do. The district court did two members of her sentence for murder and the court of appeal was the one.

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