The perp?
Posted on 09/26/2015 6:07:43 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A man from southern Sweden, who was accused of murdering his wife, is suing for damages after it was established that his wife was killed by an elk.
The man, a resident of Loftahammer in southern Sweden, is now demanding 621,000 kronor compensation for being falsely accused of murder.
His lawyers are critical of the way in which prosecutors and the police handled the investigation after the 63-year-old woman was found seriously injured near the shore of a lake outside of Loftahammar in northeast Småland in September 2008.
According to the man, investigators were too quick to assume that he had killed his wife.
For months the man laboured under the suspicion that he had murdered his wife, and he was also detained for ten days. Then it turned out that his wife was in fact killed by an elk.
When the woman was found dead on a forest path, the police immediately suspected her husband, and just hours after she found he was arrested on suspicion of murder. After ten days in detention, he was released, but the suspicions against him remained.
It would take several months before police identified the real culprit after hairs found on the woman’s body were finally identified as coming from an elk. Police then realised the woman had been kicked to death by the animal.
The man says that, because of the false accusation, he was viewed as a killer by his neighbours where he lived and had to move away.
Now he is asking for damages totalling 621,000 kronor - 300,000 kronor in compensation for suffering and 321,000 kronor in compensation for lost income.
Are you hinting that it was a Moose-lim?
Wouldn’t it have to be? That’s the most camel-looking thing in the chilly north.
Thread belongs under the Elk/Cheese/Wife category.
The perp?
“Moo...”
[BANG!]
“...Mooo.”
A man from southern Sweden, who was accused of murdering his wife, is suing for damages after it was established that his wife was killed by an elk.
Your picture is a wapiti.
The word ‘elk’ in Sweden refers to what we would call a ‘moose.’
I have no idea what word Swedes would use to refer to the animal we know as an ‘elk’ or ‘wapiti’ because I don’t think they have wapiti over there.
Moose:
Indeed.
That moose should shut up and ask for a lawyer.
That’s the most camel-looking thing in the chilly north.....I gotta take you to Vancouver to meet my brother’s wife. He had to move there because she was so ugly US officials feared she was an endangered species.
Haha
But Vancouver’s not as chilly as Sweden.
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