16-year-old convicted of execution-style killing in Uppsala – deported for life
A 16-year-old boy from Västerås is sentenced to four and a half years in prison for murder in Kvarngärdet in Uppsala. He is also deported from Sweden for life.
16-year-old convicted of murder in Uppsala – arrested in Stockholm same day
A 16-year-old boy from Västerås is sentenced by Uppsala District Court to four years and six months in prison for the murder of a 19-year-old in Kvarngärdet in Uppsala last summer, reports Aftonbladet. He is also convicted of preparation for murder, aggravated weapons offence, and offences against the law on flammable and explosive substances, and is deported from Sweden for life.
The district court describes the incident as a pure execution. When the victim lay injured on the ground, the shooter allegedly stepped forward and fired another fatal shot at close range. The boy was arrested just hours after the murder in Stockholm.
The 19-year-old was not the actual target. Senior prosecutor Mia Sjöstedt states in a press release that the investigation has shown that the perpetrator was in Uppsala for several days searching for another person.
"His primary target was another person than the 19-year-old who was later shot dead", says Sjöstedt.
Surveillance footage shows the boy cycling around Uppsala over several days in search of his intended victim. The district court assesses that the crime is rooted in organised crime and that the boy took on the assignment via an encrypted app. According to Sjöstedt, the perpetrator was directed to different locations to carry out so-called trial purchases of narcotics, with the aim of luring out the actual target.
Uppsala District Court establishes that the sentence for an adult would correspond to life imprisonment.
A boy of the same age is acquitted of aggravated harbouring of a criminal. A 33-year-old man from Stockholm is sentenced to five years in prison for aggravated weapons offence – he supplied the 16-year-old with the murder weapon.
Source: Aftonbladet