Swedish girl, 16, and brothers 'lured taxi driver, 26, into the woods before hanging him in revenge

May 2020 · 3 minute read

A Swedish girl of 16 has been accused of luring a taxi driver into a secluded forest and killing him in revenge for allegedly raping her when she was 14. 

She and her four brothers, aged between 16 and 18, are on trial accused of murdering the 26-year-old man.

The four brothers deny all charges against them, but the girl admitted that she lured him to the secluded area, thinking he would be beaten up. 

The girl allegedly texted the taxi driver, who has not been named, asking him to meet her with a bottle of vodka in a car park near the Hjälstaviken nature reserve in southeast Sweden in March.

After the pair met, the four brothers allegedly then strangled the man and hanged him with a noose made up of rope that they brought with them, Swedish newspaper Fria Tider reported.

Prosecutors said that this was likely to have meant he severely suffered in his final moments alive. 

The taxi driver was lured to a carpark near the Hjälstavikens nature reserve in southeast Sweden

The taxi driver was lured to a carpark near the Hjälstavikens nature reserve in southeast Sweden

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Several search parties were sent out to find the taxi driver, who was only found several weeks later when his car was found hidden in a nearby snowdrift. 

Local police said they found the defendants' DNA both in the murdered man's car and on the rope used to hang him. 

On top of this, records revealed they had transferred money from his bank accounts to their own. 

Cops also allegedly found some of his belongings in their home, the Swedish publication reported.

Prosecutors in Sweden's Uppsala District Court said that the main motive for the alleged murder was revenge, as the girl had made a report about the driver allegedly raping her in February last year which was not followed up on.

The brothers reportedly told several of their friends that they would be killing a rapist, and later told them that they had done so. 

Andreas Pallinder, head of investigations at the Uppsala police, admitted that his force should've taken the rape report seriously. 

'If you take it to its extreme, theoretically we could have prevented a murder,' he said at a press conference. 

Prosecutors also believed that there may have been a financial motive to the killing, as his money and belongings were missing from his person. This line of inquiry was later dropped as it was judged to be vague. 

Ebru Tok, a lawyer representing the man's family, previously said: 'The family is in great sadness and shocked by the unique situation of such young people being suspected of the murder. 

'They hope that the preliminary investigation will clarify the circumstances of the case.'

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