A 38-year-old Swedish doctor has confessed to victimizing a woman by putting drugs using strawberries laced with Rohypnol and other sedatives; and locking her inside a sound proof bunker. The Swedish man has been charged with kidnapping and rape in stance of him imprisoning the woman whom he had intended to keep in the said bunk for years.
According to The Guardian, defense lawyer Mari Schaub who took on the case described that his client was in a relationship with the withheld woman. Despite this, he has reportedly confessed all allegations thrown at him except for rape, and contested to have the kidnapping charge trim down to a lower charge of deprivation of liberty.
In accordance to his appeal, he reasoned out that he was fully depressed, and he devised and implemented the said claims in resort of finding a partner, US News shared.
The Swedish doctor's name was not revealed for privacy purposes. However, he initially made contact with the victim via phone and claimed that he met her only once before the abduction took place in Stockholm on September 12, 2015.
The woman was initially listed to be missing and was in the look-out list of the police. When the news broke out, the Swedish doctor took the abducted woman to the police station to let the authority know that she is fine and not missing as per the list and previous reports, CBS News cited.
According to the prosecutors, the man's plot has been discovered after he went back to the woman's apartment on Sept. 17 to fetch some of her belongings. Having the door's lock changed by the police, he picked up the woman, and drove to a Stockholm police station the next day so he can have the new keys to her apartment.
The police officers reportedly got suspicious and took the woman aside. That's when she told the authorities that she had been kidnapped.
Schaub described her client as a "very sad and depressed person who wanted a partner", and said he deeply regretted what happened. "He never meant to hurt anyone," she said.
The Swedish doctor is expected to begin trial next week for further hearing of the case as a psychiatric examination found the defendant mentally fit to stand trial.
