Court of Appeal rules: Life sentence for murder of “too white” pregnant woman

Published 9 October 2024 at 12.26

Domestic. The Court of Appeal today confirmed the sentence for Mohamedamin Ibrahim, 22, to life imprisonment for the murder of his girlfriend Saga in Örebro. The murder took place when his mother “did not accept that he was with a white girl”.

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Somali Mohamedamin Ibrahim murdered his girlfriend Saga on April 29, 2023 , 20, in an apartment in Örebro. The Somali and the woman had a relationship and were expecting a child together

She was seven months pregnant at the time with a healthy boy, who also died in the stomach at the time of the murder.

The prosecutor has previously stated that the murder was committed because he did not want to tell his family that he had a relationship with a “white” non-Somali. Saga had a Thai background.

– The suspect's family has not accepted that he was with a white girl, prosecutor Elisabeth Anderson told Expressen in connection with the prosecution.

Among other things, the mother confronted in January last year Ibrahim with her car, which he used, had been seen parked at Saga's address.

This enraged the mother:

“Don't come to me. I am no longer your mother. I am Islam and Somali,” she wrote in a message.

In her response, Ibrahim denied the relationship:

“I am also Islam and Somali and I do not go home to a white person.”

The district court sentenced Mohamedamin Ibrahim according to the indictment and determined the penalty to life imprisonment. He would also pay damages to the woman's relatives.

However, the Somali appealed the verdict. In the Court of Appeal, he requested to be acquitted and that he should not pay any damages. However, the Court of Appeal has also concluded that it is proven that the man killed Sa and that he should therefore be sentenced for murder.

– It has been a question of an extensive investigation. The total value of the evidence presented in the case is so high that it is beyond reasonable doubt that the man killed the woman, says the president of the court, Court of Appeal lawyer Carina Tolke.

The Court of Appeal, just like the district court, has determined the penalty for life imprisonment. According to the Court of Appeal, there are several aggravating circumstances which, taken together, mean that the penalty should be life imprisonment, including that it was a question of a protracted sequence of events where the woman must have felt strong fear of death and that the woman's death also meant that the fetus died.

The judgment of the Court of Appeal also means that Mohamedamin Ibrahim must pay damages to Saga's relatives.

Mohamedamin Ibrahim has received a Swedish passport and therefore cannot be deported to Somalia under current legislation.