A Somalian refugee who murdered his seven-months-pregnant girlfriend last year in an ‘honour killing’ has been jailed for life.
WHAT HAPPENED?
Saga Forsgren Elneborg, 20, was found strangled to death at her home in the city of Örebro in April 2023 in a case that shocked the Scandinavian country.
DETAILS OF THE HONOR KILLING
Prosecutors claimed that her 22-year-old boyfriend Mohamedamin Abdirisek Ibrahim decided to murder her rather than face the shame of telling his Muslim family that his girlfriend, believed to be half Thai, half Swedish and Christian, was expecting his baby.
They alleged that on the night Ibrahim was due to tell his family about Saga’s pregnancy, he went to her flat in Örebro and strangled her to death by wrapping the cord of her lamp around her neck.
Their baby boy, who weighed 1.7kg at the time and measured just 1.5ft from head to toe, also died inside Saga’s womb.
THE LIES HE TOLD
Ibrahim initially tried to pin Saga’s death on a gangland killing, claiming criminals had burst into the apartment and killed her to take the money he had stashed there.
But prosecutors completely refuted the claims, arguing there was no evidence of any forced entry at the property.
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The killer reportedly claimed he was out driving with a friend at the time of Saga’s murder, but prosecutors showed that he did not use his phone for 90 minutes around the incident.
In the meantime, the friend in question was on a phone call with another person and refused to testify in Ibrahim’s defence, per expressen.se.
But the judge and jury in Örebro district court agreed with prosecutors, announcing this morning that Ibrahim will face life in prison.
COURT HEARD
Meanwhile, Ibrahim had frequently met other women during his relationship with Saga and had largely refused to assume any responsibilities as a would-be father.
Prosecutors set forth evidence that Ibrahim had routinely promised he would move in with Saga after finding out about her pregnancy, yet never agreed to even spend one whole night with her.
