Published October 25, 2021 at 3:35 pm
Domestic. The public prosecutor has appealed a rape verdict to the Supreme Court and demanded that the rape be judged as serious, because the perpetrator threatened the victim with a knife.
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A man was charged with, among other things, aggravated rape of a young woman, because he forced both oral and vaginal intercourse by threatening her with a knife.
Neither the district court nor the Court of Appeal however, the rape was considered a serious crime, but sentenced for a crime of the normal degree to four years' imprisonment.
stronger man. He stated several times that he would kill her if she did not do as he said, says Attorney General Petra Lundh in a statement.
The question that the Attorney General wants the Supreme Court to try is what circumstances are required for a threats must be considered particularly serious, in the opinion of the law, and thus mean that a rape must be regarded as a serious crime. No such decision has previously been issued by the Supreme Court.
– Since at least 2005, society's view of sexual crimes has gradually been sharpened, which is also reflected in the legislation. On the other hand, it can be seen that the courts are still reluctant to assess rapes committed with the help of knife threats as serious, despite the fact that in my opinion it was the government's opinion as early as 2005 that rape under knife threats should regularly be assessed as serious, says Petra Lundh. p>
Serious rape has a minimum sentence of five years in prison since 2018.