A Swedish court has sentenced a Norwegian man to three and a half years in prison after police found his dead partner’s body in a fridge, where he kept it while he continued to collect his pension.
“They don’t want to be buried in a public cemetery but in a farm, actually,” the man’s lawyer told local newspaper Nya Wermlands-Tidningen. “So he put it in the freezer to then plant it outside and then it fell by the wayside.”
The 57-year-old told friends and family that his partner of 60 years was alive and well even after she died of cancer in 2018, an English-language Norwegian news site reported.
The woman’s family reported her missing after losing contact with her, and the man repeatedly diverted their efforts to communicate with her first on the pretext that she was sleeping or not around before finally telling them she no longer wanted to talk to them.
Police found her body in March following a tip, and the man admitted he hid her death and body.
He initially claimed that he had done so to wait for spring so that he could bury her near their farm in Varmland.
One report claimed the man had also cut up his partner to put her in the fridge, where he also kept the food he ate.
“The man also used the freezer for another purpose which I argue means that the sanctity of the deceased’s grave is violated every time the man opens and closes the freezer, which is an aggravating circumstance,” argued a prosecutor.
A Swedish court has sentenced a Norwegian man to prison after police found his dead partner’s body in a fridge. Getty Images
Prosecutors revealed the suspect earned just under $117,000 through his “systemic” fraud scheme.
The man had changed the ownership and registration of the vehicle to the deceased’s name as well.
The man had claimed during his trial that he could still communicate with his partner telepathically, but a court-appointed psychiatrist had previously determined the man did not suffer from any mental illness and renewed tests determined that did not change.
“They don’t want to be buried in a public cemetery but in a farm, actually,” the man’s lawyer told local news. “So he put it in the freezer to then plant it outside and then it fell by the wayside.” De Agostini via Getty Images
The court eventually convicted the man on charges of violating civil liberties, grand fraud, mutilating a corpse, and forgery of documents, among others.
Prosecutors had initially sought a four-year prison sentence, but the court reduced it and ordered the man to pay back the money he took through his scheme.
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Source: thtrangdai.edu.vn/en/
