Suspect faces trial – 24 years after the rape

"Suspect faces trial – 24 years after the rape"

"For soon 24 years ago raped an eight year old girl in the south of Gothenburg. Now the trial against the suspect, the detectives initiated."

"the Man, who is tied to the case through dna evidence on the girl's shirt, not remembering anything of the incident."

"It was not unexpected closed doors during the greater part of the first day of the trial in the Gothenburg district court, including when the vulnerable woman, who is now in his mid-30s, would be heard."

"The suspect, a 58-year-old flerbarnspappa, denies the continued crime, reports the local media."

"the Girl was on her way home from school on his bicycle in september 1995 when a man appeared and pulled over her and then abused and raped her. She was seriously injured and was being treated at the hospital in five days after the incident."

"were Arrested after the law change."

"the Case was long outstanding and the rough rape would have lapsed the next year. But thanks to a change in the law from the end of the year could the investigators to order a new form of dna searching in the registers – a so-called familjesökning – and got hit with a related to the suspected man."

"When the police contacted the 58-year-old flerbarnspappan for a saliva test, topsning, he was first away. But after two weeks found the man and was arrested in a town south of Gothenburg. The Dna sample was taken and showed – nearly 24 years after the rape – that it was his semen that was found on the girl's shirt in 1995."

"In which he says, however, that he doesn't know anything about the event and refer to memory problems after a fallolycka which according to him led to a brain hemorrhage."

"the Man shall be heard in the district court on Tuesday, but according to the prosecutor, it may be the case with the closed doors even then."

"– Yes, there are signs that suggest it, " said the prosecutor Thomas Ahlstrand to the GP."

"All that is reasonably suspected of an offence can lead to a prison sentence since January 1, 2006, to submit a dna sample."

"National forensiskt center (NFC) has the care of three different records for dna profiles: spårregistret, utredningsregistret and dna registry."

"Spårregistret: Contains unknown dna profiles from prostitution."

"Utredningsregistret: Contains dna profiles from persons who are reasonably suspected of a criminal offence that can lead to a prison sentence."

"the Dna code: Contains dna profiles from persons convicted of a crime with a penalty other than a fine, or have accepted a sentence of probation."

"Familjesökningen in the Swedish dna registry was made possible after a change in the law, which took effect on 1 January this year. It means that the dna traces from crime scenes can give hit even on close relatives (parents, children or brothers and sisters)."

"Familjesökningarna carried out by the National forensiskt centre (NFC), in the first instance for the most serious crimes (mordu002Fdråp, mordförsöku002Fdråpförsök and serious sexual assaults)."

"Source: National forensiskt center (NFC)."