The suspect has admitted the crime and will now undergo a forensic psychiatric examination in Huddinge.
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The suspect and the victim were known to each other. The man has previously been sentenced for minor drug offenses and most recently for causing bodily harm.
They were both familiar with each other from before, the murder suspect and the man who was killed, according to the prosecutor.
Several different investigation measures are now underway.
It was just after 5pm on Friday last week that the police were called to Föllinge in Krokom municipality. A man in his 30s was found dead and the police arrested a man suspected of having something to do with the death.
The 30-year-old suspect was arrested on Monday.
The lawyer: Has admitted the deed
The 30-year-old pleaded guilty to the crime.
- He has admitted the deed, that he killed the person. How it should then be classified will be up to the court, says the 30-year-old's defense lawyer Andreas Victor.
Now the 30-year-old will undergo a forensic psychiatric examination.
- An investigation to be carried out in Huddinge and completed in December, says lawyer Andreas Victor.
On Monday, the suspect, a 30-year-old man, was arrested on probable cause on suspicion of murder.
Will be sentenced in another case on Friday
It is the Vänersborg district court that is now sentencing the 30-year-old for two cases of causing bodily harm.
It was after a collision between a light truck he was driving and an electric scooter in Vänersborg last year that the 30-year-old was charged as a suspect of causing bodily harm. In the collision, two teenage girls who were traveling on the electric scooter were injured. The injuries were not life-threatening, but were not assessed as "minor" either. It appears from the preliminary investigation.
The 30-year-old has also been convicted of minor drug offenses in Östersund five years ago. The penalty then became daily fines.
In the case of the suspected murder in Föllinge, charges must be filed by December 18 at the latest.
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Charges must be filed by December 18 at the latest.
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