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 Carina Höglund, mother to 2008’s 10-year-old murder victim Engla, is suing the government for its inability to protect her daughter in what she claimed was a preventable attack. https://www.thelocal.se/20120221/39226 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:56:00 +0100 39226 Anders Eklund has been sentenced to life in prison for the murders of Engla Juncosa Höglund and Pernilla Hellgren. https://www.thelocal.se/20081006/14780 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:40:00 +0200 14780 The mother of Engla Juncosa Höglund, the 10-year-old girl killed by Anders Eklund earlier this year, stormed out of the court room in tears on Thursday following comments by Eklund’s defence lawyer. https://www.thelocal.se/20080925/14560 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:38:00 +0200 14560 Anders Eklund, the man who has confessed to the murders of Engla Juncosa Höglund, 10, and Pernilla Hellgren, 31, is likely to face a lengthy prison sentence after the results of a psychiatric evaluation deemed him not to be seriously mentally ill. https://www.thelocal.se/20080904/14126 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:48:00 +0200 14126 The mother of murdered 10-year-old Engla Juncosa Höglund came face to face with her daughter's killer, Anders Eklund, as the trial entered its second day. https://www.thelocal.se/20080722/13198 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:56:00 +0200 13198 Murder suspect Anders Eklund admitted in court today that he raped 31-year-old Pernilla Hellgren in Falun in 2000 before killing her. Eklund has previously admitted to killing both Pernilla Hellgren and 10-year-old Engla Juncosa Höglund. https://www.thelocal.se/20080721/13174 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:37:00 +0200 13174 Court documents released in connection with murder charges filed against Anders Eklund reveal in startling detail how the 42-year-old truck driver killed 10-year-old Engla Juncosa Höglund. https://www.thelocal.se/20080718/13140 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:27:00 +0200 13140 Murder charges were filed on Friday morning in Falu District Court against 42-year-old Anders Eklund, the truck driver accused of killing 10-year-old Engla Juncosa Högland in April. https://www.thelocal.se/20080718/13124 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:09:00 +0200 13124 A recommendation that child murderer Anders Eklund should serve a jail sentence should be overturned, his lawyer has said. The killer should instead be placed in a secure psychiatric hospital, defence attorney Leif Silbersky has argued. https://www.thelocal.se/20080709/12934 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:01:00 +0200 12934 Forensic psychiatrists have ruled that Anders Eklund, the 42-year-old truck driver who has confessed to the murder of 10-year-old Engla Juncosa Höglund, was not mentally ill when the crime was committed. https://www.thelocal.se/20080701/12762 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:05:00 +0200 12762 The burial of murdered 10-year old Engla Juncosa Höglund took place on Saturday and was broadcast on Swedish Television. https://www.thelocal.se/20080511/11680 Sun, 11 May 2008 13:11:00 +0200 11680 The Swedish Data Inspection Board (Datainspektionen) is to team up with the National Police Board (Rikspolisstyrelsen) in a bid to improve the effectiveness of the police's criminal register. https://www.thelocal.se/20080508/11634 Thu, 08 May 2008 19:33:00 +0200 11634 Anders Eklund, the man who has confessed to the murders of 10-year-old Engla Juncosa and 31-year-old Pernilla Hellgren was remanded into custody by Falun district court on Friday. https://www.thelocal.se/20080419/11220 Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:54:00 +0200 11220 Police in Dalarna have admitted to unwittingly giving Engla Höglund's killer Anders Eklund an opportunity to remove evidence from his car just hours before his arrest last week. https://www.thelocal.se/20080416/11136 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:17:00 +0200 11136 During further questioning on Monday, murderer Anders Eklund claimed the killing of 10-year-old Engla Höglund was an accident. https://www.thelocal.se/20080415/11108 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:49:00 +0200 11108 Police in Dalarna admitted on Monday they made a mistake by not following up on a tip they had received about the man who confessed to killing 10-year-old Engla Höglund. https://www.thelocal.se/20080414/11106 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:35:00 +0200 11106 Residents of Stjärnsund in central Sweden are grieving over the murder of 10-year-old Engla Höglund following a confession on Sunday by 42-year-old Anders Eklund, who had been suspected last November in another unsolved murder of a 31-year-old woman. https://www.thelocal.se/20080414/11090 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:30:00 +0200 11090 The 42-year-old man suspected of kidnapping 10-year-old Engla Höglund from Stjärnsund confessed on Sunday to killing the girl and hiding her body. https://www.thelocal.se/20080413/11082 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:26:00 +0200 11082 The 42-year-old man suspected of abducting 10-year-old Engla Höglund near Hedemora in Dalarna was remanded in custody on Friday. https://www.thelocal.se/20080411/11050 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:47:00 +0200 11050 Suspicions against the 42-year-old truck driver arrested for kidnapping 10-year-old Engla Höglund from near her home in Dalarna remain weak. https://www.thelocal.se/20080409/10998 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:43:00 +0200 10998