Sentenced for attempted murder – enlists help of well-known lawyer
The younger brother, aged 23, was wholly acquitted. The District Court was unable to prove that he had told his brother to knock down the two people.
The reason for the attempted murder was a quarrel the younger brother had had with the man who was subsequently knocked down, one evening at the end of last summer. The 23-year-old asked his brother, 25, to help him.
The brothers were sitting in their car when the driver, the 25-year-old, first drove into a woman, who was thrown up into the air, and then into the man.
The man fell to the ground. Then the 25-year-old drove over him again.
It is not clear if there was anyone else in the car.
The 25-year-old was sentenced for two attempted murders to eleven years in prison and permanent expulsion from the country. He was also ordered to pay 310 000 crowns in damages to the two people he knocked down. The man sustained serious injuries.
The 25-year-old has asked to have a new defence lawyer, Leif Silbersky, a well-known lawyer from Stockholm.
The District Court has approved the change. Silbersky has now appealed against the sentence to the Court of Appeal. He thinks the 25-year-old should be acquitted.
