An accusation has been made against a 16-year-old Swedish girl claiming she lured a taxi driver into a secluded forest and killed him by hanging as revenge for an alleged r@pe when she was 14 years old.
On trial in Sweden’s Uppsala District Court, she and her four brothers, aged between 16 to 18, are accused of murdering the 26-year-old taxi driver.
While the girl admitted to luring him to the secluded area, she claimed she did so thinking he would be beaten up, though her brothers deny all charges against them.
According to reports, the girl allegedly texted the taxi driver, who has not yet been named, asking him to meet her with a bottle of vodka in a car park near the Hjälstavikens nature reserve in southeast Sweden in March.
Allegedly, after the pair met, the four brothers strangled the man and hanged him with a noose made up of rope they brought with them, as reported by Swedish newspaper Fria Tider.
Prosecutors stated that this would likely have led to him suffering severely in his final moments of life.
Search parties were dispatched to find the taxi driver, who was found several weeks after his car was seen hidden in a nearby snowdrift.
Local police claimed they found the defendants’ DNA in the murdered man’s car and on the rope used to hang him.
Furthermore, records revealed they had transferred money from his bank accounts to their own, and some of his belongings were allegedly found in their home.
Prosecutors believed the main motive for the alleged murder was revenge, as the girl had reported the driver’s alleged r@pe, which was not followed up on.
Reportedly, the brothers told several friends about their intention to kill a rapist, and informed them after the deed was done.
At a press conference, Andreas Pallinder, head of investigations at the Uppsala police, acknowledged that his force should have taken her report of r@pe seriously.
‘If you take it to its extreme, theoretically we could have prevented a murder,’ he said.
Prosecutors also considered a financial motive for the killing, as the victim’s money and belongings were missing. However, this line of inquiry was later dropped due to lack of clarity.
Representing the murdered man’s family, lawyer Ebru Tok expressed their deep sadness and shock, hoping that the preliminary investigation would clarify the case’s circumstances.
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