Daniel Nyqvist confesses to double murder in Linköping – arrested after 20 years
Daniel Nyqvist, 37, immediately confessed to murdering an eight-year-old child and a 56-year-old woman in Linköping in 2004. DNA analysis led to his arrest.
Confession came directly after interrogation – suspect arrested after two decades
Daniel Nyqvist, 37, confesses to murdering eight-year-old Mohamed Ammouri and 56-year-old Anna-Lena Svenson in Linköping on 19 October 2004. This is according to his public defence counsel Johan Ritzer to TT, after meeting his client in custody.
"I have just met my principal in custody and an interrogation has been conducted. What I can say at this point is that his position is that he confesses to taking the life of this boy and this woman," Ritzer said.
The confession came immediately, more or less.
According to aftonbladet.se, Nyqvist was arrested on Tuesday morning by the regional task force. The prosecutor's office described the arrest in a press statement as "undramatic and efficient". A decision to detain him was made the day before, at around 2 p.m. on Monday, after the prosecutor determined there was reasonable suspicion.
Genealogy research led police to him
Nyqvist was 21 years old at the time of the murders and lived with his parents in a small town outside Linköping. He had recently completed his secondary education. Five years after the crime, in 2009, he moved into a rental flat of just over 40 square metres in Linköping – just over four kilometres from the murder scene at Kanberget.
Because he kept a low profile over the years and had never been arrested for crimes requiring DNA profiling, he remained off police radar. During the same period, approximately 5,000 other people were DNA profiled in the search for the perpetrator.
With the help of genealogy research, police eventually managed to narrow down on Nyqvist sufficiently for the prosecutor to consider him reasonably suspected. At his arrest, both Nyqvist and his brother were DNA profiled. The National Forensic Centre, NFC, carried out a rapid preliminary analysis and issued an advance notice of a positive match – for Daniel Nyqvist, the younger of the two. The prosecutor subsequently upgraded the level of suspicion to probable cause and intends to request that he be remanded in custody.
Unprovoked knife murders with no apparent motive
The knife murders of Mohamed Ammouri and Anna-Lena Svenson occurred on a Tuesday morning shortly before 8 a.m. Mohamed was on his way to school when he was killed. The crimes are assessed to have been completely unprovoked and random, with no apparent motive.
Nyqvist does not appear in the Enforcement Service records and has no registered vehicles or payment defaults. He is unmarried, has no children and does not appear to be active on social media. In recent years he has declared annual incomes of around 100,000 kronor. Both parents are deceased; his closest relative is a brother who is described as socially well-established.
Johan Ritzer has been issued a gag order by the prosecutor and cannot comment on how his client has lived during the sixteen years that have passed since the murders. The prosecutor is expected to release further information after the remand hearing, which according to reports will be held later in the week.
Source: Google News SE — Crime (sv)