https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A Stockholm policewoman is suspected of assault after a witness filmed her beating a drunken man with a baton and setting her dog on him in a violent attack. https://www.thelocal.se/20130726/49272 Fri, 26 Jul 2013 10:06:00 +0200 49272 A 31-year-old mother of four has been charged by a Gothenburg court after whipping, tying up and burning her children with a heated knife, according to local police. https://www.thelocal.se/20121109/44334 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:43:00 +0100 44334 One of Sweden’s top chiefs of police has been charged with beating his 14-year-old daughter, after he caught her and her friends drinking during a party, according to a report in daily Aftonbladet. https://www.thelocal.se/20120815/42638 Wed, 15 Aug 2012 18:47:00 +0200 42638 A 61-year-old man has awoken from a coma over two months after he was attacked by a gang of teenage boys in Gothenburg. https://www.thelocal.se/20120527/41068 Sun, 27 May 2012 13:01:00 +0200 41068 Six men in Hallsberg, central Sweden, have been convicted and sentenced to prison after the severe honour-related beating of a 19-year-old with metal rods at a gym. https://www.thelocal.se/20120419/40358 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:25:00 +0200 40358 Video footage may be available of the brutal beating in Gothenburg where a gang of teenage boys are suspected of having beaten a 61-year-old into a coma as bystanders looked on. https://www.thelocal.se/20120403/40060 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 12:20:00 +0200 40060 Six men in Hallsberg, central Sweden, have been charged with the severe beating of a 19-year-old with metal rods at a gym in central Sweden, in an attack police believe to be honour-related. https://www.thelocal.se/20120130/38802 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:43:00 +0100 38802 Prosecutors are demanding life imprisonment in the ongoing case of the 28-year-old who killed a female guard at the Flemingsberg remand facility south of Stockholm. https://www.thelocal.se/20111202/37706 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:17:00 +0100 37706 The female prison guard who was beaten to death by an inmate on Monday was alone with the 28-year-old offender at the time, in violation of a previous decision that the inmate should be accompanied by two guards when being moved. https://www.thelocal.se/20111005/36558 Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:00:00 +0200 36558 A 15-year-old boy is being held by police in Eskilstuna in central Sweden on suspicion of beating a middle-aged man to death. https://www.thelocal.se/20110805/35366 Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:19:00 +0200 35366 Fredrick Federley, a Centre Party MP, was beaten and robbed outside his Stockholm apartment on Wednesday night. The Swedish Security Service (Säpo) has taken over the investigation. https://www.thelocal.se/20100916/29042 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:08:00 +0200 29042 The trial of a man accused of beating a 78-year-old woman to death in a car park in Landskrona in southern Sweden in March opens in Helsingborg District Court on Monday. https://www.thelocal.se/20100517/26682 Mon, 17 May 2010 12:40:00 +0200 26682 Three women were sentenced to prison on Wednesday for assaulting the girlfriend of the spokesperson for the far-right Sweden Democrats. https://www.thelocal.se/20090722/20844 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:31:00 +0200 20844 Two young women suspected of beating up the spokesperson of the far right Sweden Democrats and his girlfriend were remanded in custody on Wednesday by the Södertörn District Court. https://www.thelocal.se/20090611/20000 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:15:00 +0200 20000 A court in Malmö convicted two 15-year-old girls from southern Sweden for the “torture-like” beating of another 13-year-old girl in a dispute over insulting text and internet chat messages. https://www.thelocal.se/20090514/19448 Thu, 14 May 2009 14:38:00 +0200 19448 A man with an immigrant background was insulted before being brutally beaten with a baseball bat in the town Arnö, outside of Nyköping in eastern Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20090119/16996 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:01:00 +0100 16996