Lived close to politiboss: Daniel was 16 years to acknowledge the dobbeltmord

Two of the recent decades biggest kriminalgåder is in the course of a few days have been solved in Sweden.

the First appointed police the now deceased radical right Stig Engström as prime minister, Olof Palmes murderer back in 1986.

Now is the turn to dobbeltmordet on an eight-year-old boy and a 56-year-old woman in Linköping. The case of Mohamad Ammouri and Anna-Lena Svenson, both 19. October 2004 in the morning was killed by jack with a butterflykniv in a residential area in the Swedish town Linköping.

the Perpetrator stack of. Drabsvåbnet he left out.

The killed Mohamad Ammouri remember here at a højtidlighed in his hometown get the days after the killing in 2004. Photo: Mattias Carlsson/Ritzau Scanpix

Quite sensational to have a local loner now, according to the Expressen, Aftonbladet and Dagens Nyheter confessed without reservation. The case of the hitherto unpunished now 37-year-old Daniel Nyqvist, who lived alone in an apartment in Linköping.

It confirms his lawyer, Johan Ritzer, of nyhedsmediet TT.

- He has expressed, that it is a relief, says the defender.

The enigmatic Daniel Nyqvist has in 16 years has managed to stay below the police radar to remain silent, avoid social contacts and lead an extremely modest life.

It could be done, even though the police had a strong dna profile, and through the years has got 13.000 tip in drabssagen and had 5000 men in for questioning, and even though Daniel Nyqvist in high degree similar to the phantom image, as the authorities laid out after the killings.

Hundreds of people took part in Mohamad Ammouris burial in the lebanese city Tfahta. Photo: Lars Rosengren/Ritzau Scanpix

It also falls in the eyes, to the man for several years lived only 50 metres from a police chief, as a transition led drabsefterforskningen.

The extremely taciturn weirdo lived far up in adulthood with his parents, but they are long since dead. In recent years he lived allegedly by a the message of insurance and social performance.

In January of this year meant a childhood friend to recognize Daniel Nyqvist as the person on the police photo-fit. He could also tell that the very withdrawn man had a collection of butterflyknive.

Swedish police photo-fit of the alleged assassin led by 16-year delay, to Daniel Nyqvists arrest. Photo: Politifoto

In the end, it was Daniel Nyqvist identified by means of 'genetic genealogy'. It is, according to Dagens Nyheter the first time in Swedish kriminalhistorie, to the police on the way had the full benefit of a new, expanded dna-register and genealogy.

specifically, the police by means of fingerprints and a complicated program generated match of distant relatives. In this way they have built up a family tree dating back to the 1700s, which they then coupled to the suspected perpetrator.

- This is a greater revolution than the fingerprint. I think that it's going to be our standard procedure in the future. It is a very powerful tool, says Peter Sjölund.

Dobbeltdrabet played out here in Åsgatan area in Linköping. Stefan Jerrvåning/Ritzau Scanpix

Expressen has spoken with neighbors and childhood friends, most of whom have never seen Daniel Nyqvist, while others have not seen him for a number of years. They tell us that the mentally impaired guy already as a young man, isolated himself.

- It was so terribly sad, says his Dan Nilsson of Expressen.

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It is unclear what the motive behind dobbeltdrabet can be. Anna-Lena Svenson was according to police, stabbed to death, then she would get the eight-year-old boy, Mohamad Ammouri to the rescue.

the Boy was on the way to school, when he was killed by several stabbings.

Daniel Nyqvist was last week remanded in custody in the case. Swedish media reports that he ran a mine.

The killed five-year-old boy's father, Hassan Ammouri, gives here free rein to his grief by a mindesammenkomst at the scene of the killing of Mohamad and Anna-Lena Svenson. Photo: Rehn Kai/Ritzau Scanpix