Published 10 December 2022 at 16.04
Domestic. A man in Uddevalla has been arrested for a murder he allegedly committed 20 years ago.
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On Tuesday, the man, who is in his 40s, was arrested on probable cause by prosecutors.
18-year-old Marua Ajouz's head was found in the Bokskogen outside Malmö in 2003, and the rest of the body was found when an excavator was doing work in Nordanå in 2017.
The man, who is an ex-boyfriend of Ajouz, has previously been interesting in the investigation and the police suspected that he, together with a couple of good friends, shot and dismembered Marua Ajouz a few days before Christmas 2002.
Dogs found tracks in the ex-boyfriend's apartment, but due to a lack of evidence and technology, the investigation stopped.
Through the new find from the excavator, the police received new technical evidence that led to the investigation entered a new phase.
On Friday afternoon, the man, on probable cause suspected of having murdered the woman, was arrested by the Malmö district court.