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Broke up with girlfriend – got 4.5 years in prison for rape without evidence
Published September 2, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Law & Justice. A 22-year-old man has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison for rape without evidence. According to the district court, his version of what happened is less credible than the woman's - because he is accused and therefore may have motives to "protect himself" by lying. Now he and his mother are criticizing the reversed burden of proof in Samnytt.
The young man was convicted in the district court of two counts of rape.
The events allegedly took place at his mother's house, when she was home. After the first alleged rape, the woman returned to the house and later sent the man a text message: "You don't seem to be interested in me anymore."
Muhammed, 22, participated in a record-breaking rape: Now he receives 130,000 kronor in compensation from taxpayers - even though he committed a serious sex crime.
During the trial, it emerged that the woman had taken nitrous oxide, was under the influence, mixed up dates and stated that she may have hallucinated things on various occasions.
She could not specify the exact dates, no physical injuries were found, and the witness who was supposed to corroborate her story through so-called hearsay was absent from court – yet the verdict was still a conviction.
Mohamed found Jesus after the rape – allowed to stay even though he was sentenced to deportation.
The district court found that the woman's story was "credible", while the man was considered to have motives to "protect himself" by lying, since he was charged in a criminal case.
He was therefore considered less credible than the woman and was convicted solely on the basis of her circumstantial evidence. No technical or supporting evidence was ever presented.
The convicted man's mother, Jeanette Westerlund Lindsjö, is critical not only of the reversed burden of proof applied to her son, but also of the court's choice to ignore the circumstances that suggested her son was innocent. Because even though the woman's own story contained parts that indicated it was not true, the court bought it outright and accepted her explanations without hesitation.
– She said in questioning that she mixed up the dates, that she hallucinated, that she felt bad and took nitrous oxide. She had named a witness – but the person never appeared in court. The same person had appeared as a witness in a previous case where the same girl accused another guy, Jeanette tells Samnytt.
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