Prosecutors claim the lifetime of the Yara case – Sveriges Radio

Both the man and the woman should be sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of eight-year-old girl Yara in Karlskrona a year ago. It urged prosecutors Pernilla Astrom for today when the trial in the high-profile case entered its final stage in the Court of Appeal.

– My firm opinion is that it is possible to judge Both the accused for murder in accordance with what I have described, prosecutors said Pernilla Astrom during the trial.

Pernilla Astrom keeps thus confirmed its line from the district court that both the man and the woman as the eight-year-old girl Yara lived with in Karlskrona shall be sentenced for murder.

She believes that both participated in the killing and jointly and in concert tried to hide the evidence afterwards.

– But really I foresee that it does not play a decisive role who has distributed these battles, or exercised violence. If there is one or both of them that have been beaten. Because both are equally responsible by the named underwriter liability, said Pernilla Åström.

Guarantor Liability means that the man acting as custodian for Yara had a responsibility to protect her from violence, and that not doing so can be equated with active action.

Man , which the District Court had six years in prison for extremely aggravated assault, according to the prosecutor should therefore be convicted of murder regardless of whether the Court of Appeal considers it proven that he participated in the killing or not.

The district court said that the man was not involved in the brutal violence against Yara, and sentenced him on his guarantor liability, while the woman received life imprisonment for murder.

Selects also the Court of Appeal to go on guarantor responsibility when assessing the responsibility of the man, thus becomes a central issue of guarantor liability can keep for a morddom. Something that has never been tried before.

In his closing argument today said the man’s defender Christer Holmqvist that there is no evidence that his client participated in the killing of Yara.

He also said that the ambiguity what really happened that night makes his guarantor liability should not jump to stretch beyond a less serious crimes.

– This presented the evidence, or lack of evidence, he can, I mean, at most, be sentenced to bodily harm in its capacity as custodian, said Christer Holmqvist during the trial.

Samuel L. Session
samuel.larsson@sverigesradio.se