Murder of Wilma Andersson
Wilma Andersson was murdered by Tishko Ahmed Sherzad her Iraqi-Kurdish boyfriend in November 2019 in Uddevalla, Sweden. Her boyfriend was arrested in his absence 3 December and was apprehended 4 December.[1]
Disappearance and search
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Andersson, 17 years old, went missing Thursday November 14 but at the time there was no indication of a crime. A search was commenced and her shoes and eyeglasses were found the following Tuesday night. Later in the day her boyfriend was apprehended as a manslaughter suspect. The following Wednesday a search was conducted in Ljungskile south of Uddevalla.[2]
Late November, police authorities received help from the Swedish armed forces who aided the search for her body with divers and a mini submarine.[3]
On November 28, her severed head was found in the boyfriend's bedroom.[4][5][6]
By December, three weeks later, more than 5000 people had taken part in the search for her body which was missing.[7][5]
Trial
[edit]In May 2020, her 23-year-old boyfriend was charged with her murder and with the crime of desecrating by mutilation Wilma Andersson's dead body (Swedish: brott mot griftefriden). In the prosecutor's file it is stated he had beheaded his girlfriend and kept her head wrapped in plastic in a trolley. He pleaded not guilty to the charges, in spite of overwhelming evidence.[8] At the time of prosecution, Andersson's body had not been found and therefore a cause of death could not be established.[9]
In mid July, the Swedish National Board of Forensic Medicine found that the accused did not suffer from a serious or invalidating mental illness, but rather showed what experts have described as narcissistic personality traits, ascribable to a narcissistic personality disorder, epitomized by a grandiose, inflated self which according to the psychiatric evaluation is neither consistent with what Tishko Ahmed Shabaz actually has accomplished throughout his life nor in line with factual reality and its objective perception. According to the examination, the defendant displayed as well a shallow and flat range of emotions, other than a remarkable lack of empathy.[10]
During the trial, the accused denied guilt in her death.[11]
July 27 he was found guilty in Uddevalla District Court (Swedish: tingsrätt) of murder as well as violating the victim's corpse and named as Tishko Ahmed Shabaz. He was sentenced to life in prison.[6][12][13] The convict was also ordered to pay 227 664 SEK in damages (about 22 thousand euro) to Andersson's family. The convict continued to deny the accusations after the conclusion of the trial.[10]
Appeals court
[edit]The Court of Appeal for Western Sweden lowered the sentence for Ahmed from life in prison to a prison term of 18 years. In practice the sentence is subject to the Swedish legal system which by default releases convicts early after two thirds of the prison term. Ahmed continued to maintain his innocence despite remains of the victim were found in his closet.[14]
Perpetrator
[edit]Tishko Ahmed Sherzad was born January 22, 1997, in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, to a Kurdish family, and was 9 years old when he came to Sweden with his father in 2006. Ahmed obtained Swedish citizenship in 2014 and lived in Uddevalla during his stay in Sweden.[13]
Media
[edit]Public service broadcaster SVT did not publish the name of the perpetrator after the trial concluded, saying it was not "indisputably in public interest" and that publishing name or picture of the perpetrator would not create understanding on why this serious crime had been carried out. SVT published the name and picture of the 17-year-old female victim.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ "Mand anholdt - mistænkt for mord på ung svensk kvinde - TV 2". nyheder.tv2.dk (in Danish). 2019-12-04. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ^ Brekke, Anders (2019-11-21). "Svensk 17-åring borte i en uke – har funnet sko og briller". NRK (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ^ AS, TV 2 (26 November 2019). "Nye søk med miniubåt etter savnede Wilma (17)". TV 2 (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2020-07-29.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Eustachewich, Lia (19 May 2020). "Man allegedly wrapped ex-girlfriend's head in foil after decapitating her". Retrieved 27 August 2020.
- ^ a b "To unge kvinder savnet i Sverige - nu er den ene fundet død - TV 2". nyheder.tv2.dk (in Danish). 2019-12-03. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ^ a b AS, TV 2 (17 June 2020). "Kjæresten (23) funnet skyldig i drapet på Wilma (17)". TV 2 (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2020-07-29.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Telefon: 33111313, Rådhuspladsen 37 1785 København V. (19 November 2019). "17-årige Wilma frygtes dræbt: Mand anholdt i Sverige". ekstrabladet.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2020-07-29.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "23-årig tiltales for brutalt drab på teenagekæreste i Sverige - TV 2". nyheder.tv2.dk (in Danish). 2020-05-13. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ^ "GW om åtalet kring fallet Wilma: "Problematiskt"". www.expressen.se (in Swedish). 13 May 2020. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ^ a b c Xhaferi, Valentina (2020-07-27). "Ex-pojkvännen döms till livstids fängelse för mordet på Wilma". SVT Nyheter (in Swedish). Retrieved 2020-08-01.
- ^ "Nyhetsstudio - - Slo Wilma bevisstløs". dagbladet.no. 2020-06-08. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ^ NRK (2020-07-27). "Dømd til livstid i fengsel". NRK (in Norwegian Nynorsk). Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ^ a b "Tishko Ahmed skyldig – mördade Wilma Andersson, 17, i Uddevalla enligt tingsrätten". www.expressen.se (in Swedish). 17 June 2020. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ^ "Tishko Ahmed, 23, får sänkt straff för mordet på Wilma, 17". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). 23 October 2020. Retrieved 2020-10-31.