Crimes of violence

The 19-year-old man accused of murdering a teenager in Valkeakoski was looking for information about dark things just shortly before his shocking act.

The search history of the man’s phone revealed his interest in violent and sexual crimes. He had searched for information about rape, strangulation with a belt, killing, and serial killers.

Among the names the man applied for was one known as a serial predator Mika MoringFinnish serial killer, US serial killers Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy and Ted Bundy and the monster doctor of Nazi Germany Josef Mengele.

He also sought information about the party paying the lawyer’s fee, child pornography and pedophilia, rape convictions and masturbating in a store.

Eight sexual images of the child were found on the man’s phone.

According to the defendant’s assistant, true crime is popular entertainment, and it cannot be directly concluded that the man planned his crime.

The man is accused in Pirkanmaa District Court of manslaughter, aggravated child rape. The victim, a 15-year-old girl, was found dead in a forest near Naaka’s residential area last May.

According to the prosecutor, the defenseless girl had been raped and killed by strangulation.

In addition, the man is accused of possessing an image depicting a child sexually.

The prosecutor demands at least 13 years of unconditional imprisonment for the man.

Relatives think it’s murder

The victim’s relatives demand that the man be sentenced for murder. A photo of a custody trial. Miia Siren

The victim’s parents demand that the man be sentenced for murder, for which the punishment is the harshest possible, i.e. life imprisonment.

According to them, the search history of the man’s phone shows that he had prepared for the act. He was also equipped for the act by taking a knife with him, which was found under the victim’s leg.

According to the relatives, the man had been looking for a suitable victim at the usual gathering place for young people and had followed their daughter for about two kilometers before the crimes.

In their opinion, the act was brutal and cruel. They have described the act as sadistic.

A cruel message

In their demands, the relatives also highlight the man’s writing on the Ylilauta forum in March 2024.

– Today I carry out my first kill. A woman who has been aroused for a long time strangles him, the man wrote at the time.

The message led to the man’s arrest. In April, the police closed the preliminary investigation of the case, as the threat was not directed at anyone.

The crimes for which the man is now accused took place at the end of May.

The victim’s relatives demand compensation of a total of 70,000 euros from the man for the suffering caused by the insult.

With a controversial position

The man has denied the murder and the charges as presented by the prosecutor.

He has admitted that he was at the same place as the victim at the time of the events, that he had sexual intercourse and that he caused injuries to the victim.

In his opinion, it was basic rape and assault, as well as aggravated manslaughter.

He has also admitted to possessing an image depicting a child sexually.

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At the time of the events, the man accused of manslaughter and aggravated child rape was on probation for a robbery conviction.

He has also previously been convicted of aggravated damage, robbery, theft and online fraud.

In the summer of 2023, he claimed to the authorities that he had committed a murder.

– Gay, I shot something whore, he claimed to the emergency operator.

The call was unwarranted and the act was considered minor, so the investigation against the police for snitching was decided.

In the picture, the trio arrives at the apartment that serves as a hiding place about an hour after the first murder. The teenagers were recorded so often and on so many security cameras that the preliminary investigation has more than 300 pages of security camera images. Police preliminary investigation material

The Södertörn district court in Sweden has sentenced four people for triple murder on Wednesday, August 28. The acts take place for about a day in October of last year. The then 16-year-old boy attacked the homes of two different families with children on two consecutive nights, where he murdered a total of three people.

We wrote more about the course of events and the victims in this article. The actions were part of an internal conflict within the Foxtrot gang.

– The shootings were unheard of and extremely ruthless. Three people were executed. Two adults and five children were targeted by an attempted murder in their own home, described the district judge who presided over the trial Sofia Jungstedt In the opinion of the Södertörn district court.

Minors to prison

Three of the convicts are minors. In Sweden, it has been customary to sentence minors to a closed youth home in accordance with the recommendation of the Criminal Code. This time, the district court decided differently, and the verdict is completely exceptional in the country’s criminal history.

At the time of the crime, the 16-year-old boy was sentenced to 12 years in prison for three murders, seven attempted murders and aggravated firearms offences. At the time of the crime, a 15-year-old boy was sentenced to 10 years in prison for inciting murders and attempted murders, aiding and abetting murders and attempted murders, and aggravated firearms offences.

District judge Jungstedt commented to SVT that he does not know of a single previous case in which a 15-year-old at the time of the crime was sentenced to prison.

Jungstedt tells Iltalehti that the young age of the perpetrators has been taken into account in the length of the sentences. An adult would be sentenced to life imprisonment for similar acts.

Jungstedt says that the execution of the sentence itself is no longer affected by the age of the young people. Juveniles sit in prison in the same way as adults, i.e. they can get parole after serving two-thirds of the sentence.

According to information from Aftonbladet, a piece of paper on which the perpetrator had written a message had been found in the main perpetrator’s cell in pretrial detention.

– However, I had time to do something before I got caught, Aftonbladet quotes the note.

In the same message, the perpetrator is said to have expected four years of a closed youth home as punishment. He wrote that he plans to focus on money and drugs in the future instead of killing people.

The story continues after the picture.

Two other factors

Two other factors were also involved in the incident. At the time of the crime, the 15-year-old girl was sentenced to a youth home closed for two years and two months for aiding and abetting murders and attempted murders, and for aggravated firearm crime.

At the time of the crime, a 21-year-old man was sentenced to 16 years in prison for aiding and abetting murder. He remotely paid for taxi trips to and from the murder sites.

Arson and an attempted arson were also part of the criminal case. Among the perpetrators, a 15-year-old girl and a boy at the time, were convicted of aiding and abetting arson and its attempt. In addition, a 21-year-old man at the time was sentenced for aiding and abetting aggravated arson.

The boy convicted of three murders has only confessed to the crime of firearms – he was caught with a gun. Otherwise, all perpetrators have denied all crimes.

The verdict can be appealed to the Court of Appeal, so it is not legally binding.

In the forensic psychiatric examination, the main perpetrator was found to be responsible, i.e. he did not suffer from a serious mental health disorder at the time of the acts.

The research, which normally lasts four weeks, had to be stopped after only one week at the specially designated facility. However, the research report was given to the district court and it was deemed sufficient.

The research had to be stopped, because about a week after arriving at the research institute, the perpetrator ended up in a violent conflict with an employee. The day after the incident, the perpetrator made a death threat to the staff and was armed with a plastic fork bent to a sharp point. He also threatened to hurt or kill himself.

The institution stated that the risk of serious violence is high. Therefore, the perpetrator was returned to pretrial detention.

Difficult childhood

The state of mind survey includes a statement from social care. It shows the author’s difficult circumstances as a child. At home in Somalia, the family with six children was financially very tight, and the author could not go to school at all. Before arriving in Sweden, the family lived in a refugee camp in Ethiopia.

The family applied for asylum in Sweden in 2017. At that time, the 11-year-old boy started school for the first time. He couldn’t read or write, and the beginning of school was challenging. According to the statement, he often ended up in “very violent” conflicts with other children and school teachers. The boy did not accept that he could not study at the same level as other children due to his limited basic knowledge.

– He said that the teachers are ruining his life when they don’t give him the same education as other classmates, the social welfare report says.

Iltalehti does not publish the authors’ names, as they are minors.