After police discovered the body of his deceased partner inside a freezer, where he had maintained it and continued to get her pension, a Swedish court sentenced the Norwegian man to three and a half years in prison.
An English-language Norwegian news site said that the 57-year-old man informed friends and family that his 60-year-old partner was still alive and well despite though she died of cancer in 2018.
“They didn’t want to be buried at a public cemetery but at the farm, actually,” the man’s lawyer told local paper Nya Wermlands-Tidningen. “So he put her in the freezer to later bury her outside and then it fell by the wayside.”
According to information obtained, the woman’s family reported her missing after losing communication with her as a result of many justifications from her husband, including her husband’s claim that she no longer wished to communicate with them.
Following a tip, police discovered her remains in March. The man later confessed to concealing both her death and body.
At first he said he had done it to wait for spring so he could bury her close to their property in Varmland.
According to one account, the man allegedly chopped his partner and placed her in the freezer, where he also kept food for himself.
“The man also used the freezer for other purposes which I argue means that the deceased person’s sanctity of the grave was violated every time the man opened and closed the freezer, which is an aggravating circumstance,” a prosecutor argued
At first he said he had done it to wait for spring so he could bury her close to their property in Varmland.
“The man also used the freezer for other purposes which I argue means that the deceased person’s sanctity of the grave was violated every time the man opened and closed the freezer, which is an aggravating circumstance,” a prosecutor argued.
The suspect’s “systemic” fraud operation earned him slightly under $117,000, according to the prosecution.
Vehicles bearing the deceased’s name on the registration and ownership papers had been changed by the man.
The guy had said during his trial that he could still telepathically connect with his spouse, but doctors assigned by the court had earlier decided the man was not mentally ill, and more recent testing had confirmed this.
In the end, the individual was found guilty by the court of counts including mutilating a corpse, falsifying records, and grossly violating civil freedoms.
The judge reduced the sentence from the four years that the prosecution had sought and ordered the guy to pay back the money he had obtained via his plan.
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