Published 18 April 2024 at 18.19
Domestic. The Court of Appeal stiffens the sentence to life imprisonment for Mahmoud Asalya, 22, who murdered Joullnar, 43, in Taberg. His brother is also wanted by Interpol for an unrelated double murder.
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Othman Asalya, 35, was recently wanted by Interpol for murdering two young men in Nässjö. He was at large at the time of the double murder due to a farcical legal process, despite the fact that he had previously been charged with a brutal robbery attempt against a woman in Jönköping.
His brother Mahmoud Asalya, 22, has at the same time been prosecuted for the murder of Joullnar Gorgis, whose body was found in a wooded area in Taberg last year.
The Court of Appeal now stiffens the sentence for the younger of the two Arab brothers.
The district court sentenced Mahmoud Asalya to prison for 18 years. He would also pay damages to some of the woman's relatives.
In the Court of Appeal, he requested to be acquitted of responsibility for murder and grave breach of peace – or in any case to receive a shorter prison sentence – and to avoid paying damages. The prosecutor and the relatives requested that the penalty be toughened and a life sentence be handed down.
Even the Court of Appeal concludes that Mahmoud Asalya should be sentenced according to the indictment. Unlike what was the case at the district court, however, the penalty is determined to be imprisonment for life.
– That a life sentence is handed down is due, among other things, to the fact that the Court of Appeal found that the man at the time of the crime intended to kill the woman and did not – as the district court considered – was indifferent to the fact that she would die. Since the murder was thus committed with a higher degree of intent, the act is more punishable. In addition to this, the Court of Appeal attaches greater importance than the District Court to the suffering that the woman must have experienced and the particular recklessness that characterizes the act, says the court's chairman Patrik Örnsved.
The Court of Appeal's judgment also means that Mahmoud Asalya must pay damages to more of the woman's relatives. Similar to the District Court, the Court of Appeal further decides that he is to be deported from Sweden and prohibited from returning here without a time limit.