A man calls 112, struggling to breathe as he confesses to killing two people with a knife. The operator asks for his details, but the call is chaotic. The incident took place in Ulricehamn, where a young man was found dead along with his friend, while the murderer, who was hyperventilating, stood nearby. In a toilet, his girlfriend locked herself in, and the emergency operator asks for her to confirm the deaths before the police arrive. The trial is intense, with defendants accused of planning the initial robbery, whilst other defendants are accused of excessive violence. The prosecutor charges them all, and the crime scene is harrowing, with severe stab wounds and cuts evident.
He can hardly breathe when he is connected to 112, but is in a hurry to tell.
“I have killed them, with a knife!”
The alarm operator has difficulty taking in what she hears. She asks for his social security number – and gets it digit by digit, and phone number – same there. But the sequence of events is full of noise.
In the hall of the little one in Ulricehamn a young man lies dead, another by the balcony door. In the middle of this stands the person who killed them, hyperventilating. In the toilet, his girlfriend has locked herself in. She is only 16. The emergency operator asks him to leave the receiver for her.
“Hello?”
A very young voice is heard on the recording, which the court in Borås gets to hear seven months later. One of the women in the audience is the mother of the boy in the hall, a man in the row in front of her is the father of the young man on the balcony. They bury their heads in their hands.
Photo: Tomas Ohlsson
SOS alarm asks the girl in the toilet to go out and see what happened.
“I haven’t dared to go out,” she replies.
“You have to check if there are two dead on the floor,” says the operator.
There is silence for a few seconds before the girl returns.
“Yes, but it does,” she whispers.
It is so noticeably quiet around her. Just now it was total chaos according to what she says. Both she and her boyfriend say they were sleeping when someone knocked hard and rang their doorbell. After a while it quieted down, but then the downpipes started rattling, as if someone was climbing up. The 16-year-old saw a masked man break the glass of the balcony door.
“It happened so fast, I panicked, people came from everywhere, it seemed. Then I ran and locked myself in the toilet.”
Again the operator asks for a confirmation from the teenager. Are any of those on the floor breathing?
“No, no one.”
Photo: Tomas Ohlsson
Soon after comes the police. And the ambulance and the dog patrol and the helicopter. The 16-year-old and her boyfriend are taken into custody and charged with murder. Pretty soon she is released and six months later the suspicion against the boyfriend is mitigated. He is now charged with murder, but his defense attorney wants to see him go free because she believes it was all in self-defense.
Borås district court is not built for this type of loaded cases. Relatives of all parties sit without barriers to the defendants, and the defendants sit close to each other. Both those who are suspected of involvement in the failed robbery, and he who is suspected of excessive violence against the robbers.
When the interpreting equipment collapses, one of the dead boys’ father gets to sit next to the interpreter. On the other side of the interpreter sits the man who killed his son.
Photo: Tomas Ohlsson
Prosecutor Martin Svensson charges both the man he wants to try for murder and those who allegedly planned the attack on him.
– What began as a serious robbery attempt ended with two people being killed. A terrible outcome, in a harmonious Ulricehamn, he says in summary.
All the defendants deny what the prosecutor wants to charge them with.
When films and photos from the crime scene were to be shown, closed doors were requested. Relatives who had the right to stay were also warned about the material. After a few minutes, several of the relatives came out crying and accompanied by guards.
When the media and others again let in, pictures of the apartment’s kitchen are shown. The floor is completely covered in blood. Then the prosecutor reads from the autopsy reports which show that both of the young victims were subjected to very extensive violence. They have severe stab wounds and cuts all over their bodies.
According to the prosecutor, both must have tried to get out, but died before they succeeded.
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