Managers cleared of responsibility for remand murder in Huddinge, Sweden – Swedish Radio

Managers cleared of responsibility for remand murder in Huddinge, Sweden – Swedish Radio

Three former executives acquitted for safety violations in the case of the murder of a caregiver at the detention center in Huddinge. The three managers at the detention center in Huddinge was accused of working fracture after a female-carer was murdered by an inmate in autumn 2011.

– I react naturally very positive. This has been hanging over my client for several years, that is to say, she would have been responsible for one of the employee’s death. But now, in any case, the district court arrived at what we have argued all along, namely that there is a person who carried out the murder, and it is he who is responsible, says Patrick Lindblom, a lawyer for the former prison chief in Huddinge.

The prosecutor argued that the three governors had taken measures that would have prevented the murder. But the District Court does not consider that the prosecution has failed to prove that the detention center in Huddinge lacked procedures that a reasonably diligent employer would have in place.

The district court does not consider that it is possible to conclude that the murder would not have occurred if the extra procedures prosecutor called been in place.

Finally, the Court has not considered it proven that any of the defendants had reason to expect that a death could occur as a result of inadequate procedures as the prosecutor claims that jail had. All of the defendants have therefore acquitted.

According to the district court does not claim that an employer shall take all measures necessary to prevent illness or injury that the person responsible in breach of its obligations as soon as a accident or death occurred.

– Instead, it is required that he deviated from what is generally considered reasonable steps that an employer is deemed to have failed in their obligations, writes presiding Judge Frederick Nydén, in a press release from the National Courts Administration.

Three of the Court’s six members, however, divergent and want to judge two of the defendants were the heads of the working breach of probation and fined.

Magnus Wennerbergsgatan
magnus.e.wennerberg@sverigesradio.se