Monday, April 27, 2015

Defence goal: She’ll be acquitted – Expressen

During the last day of the Court of Appeal will Amani Madis defenders keep his closing statement. The goal is that the woman, convicted of the murder of Yara, 8 in Karlskrona a year ago, should be acquitted. The girl’s family has not been able to be present at the negotiations in Malmö.

– They live in a vacuum, one can say, says Karin Akesson Rehnholm, family Alnajjars representative.

The proceedings of the Court of Appeal concluded just over a year after Yara beaten to death in the apartment where she lived with her uncle and his wife. According to the judgment of the district court had the little girl has been subjected to protracted violence with a rolling pin, among other things. Amani Madi, 31, was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder and Yara’s uncle was sentenced to six years in prison for extremely aggravated assault and manslaughter. Amani Madi could be linked to the violence with his uncle was convicted for not having intervened during the deadly assault.



Teasing often

During the penultimate day of the Court of Appeal negotiations emerged including a character witness to speak in Amani Madis thing. A distant relative who told me that Amani Madi helped him when he came to Sweden from Gaza. The witness also told me that he and his wife received assistance from Amani when they moved to Karlskrona. For a while they were living in the same apartment.

During this period, he says that the couple quarrel very much.

– It was not every day but every second, says witness also seen that Man beaten Amani Madi at least one occasion and that police summoned.

But the time had Amani withdrawn his police report and the witness did not want to make anyone when police questioned him.

Increase in uncle penalty

After the witness was time for closing remarks. Prosecutors Pernilla Astrom argued that Yara’s uncle was convicted of murder and claimed in the case of life imprisonment. Alternatively, the penalty for extremely serious assault and manslaughter increased to ten years in prison.

uncle defender Christer Holmqvist sighted in on the prosecution evidence against his client was hypothetical. The defender said that it was very possible that Yara really beaten to death at home, but that it occurred without his uncle’s seen or heard anything on time. When he discovered that Yara was lifeless, it was already too late. The defenses believes that his uncle left the reasonable explanations for why he had not noticed anything. There has been, for example children who demanded his attention, chat, and a high volume on television, for example.

But perhaps most of all because he could not have foreseen that there was a risk of allowing his wife to be alone with Yara.

On Tuesday, the Amani Madis defender Eric Widner to keep his closing speech. He expected to take two to three hours on it.

– I will go through the prosecutor’s claim and argue for an acquittal, says Eric Widner.

– The weakness is that it is a indiciemål.

Have there been any new evidence since negotiations in the District Court?

– No. This is a question of how to make a proper assessment of the evidence.



The family can not be bothered to follow the trial

Meanwhile, as the trial draws to a close, there Yara’s parents in Karlskrona. The father has spoken out about the judgment but they have not been in place during the Court of Appeal negotiations.

– They follow the trial as much as they can because it is so difficult for them to absorb, says the family’s representative Karin Akesson Rehnholm.

– In detail, they do not have full knowledge of what happened other than in general terms. And they do not want it either.

The family Alnajjar live in Sweden during temporary residence during the trial.

– They do not have the normal contacts you have in Sweden as asylum seekers. Only recently they have received little help. it’s tough for them. They live relatively isolated.

The family’s pain and loss is constant. They are constantly reminded of what has happened to their girl.

– This settles course not, that brought to life the whole time. As soon as something happens to wake the sadness and anger too, of course.

While living family under threat of retaliation. It is Yara’s uncle who was in charge of the girl in Sweden. This means that it is the mother’s relatives who are responsible for what has happened. It is a further insult to their burden.

– They stick together but they are not easy.

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