A Swedish man gets his innocence after 13 years in prison thanks to Podcast
Kaj Linna on the right with journalist Anton Burg (BBC)
In 2004, a Swedish man, Kaj Linna, was sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted of robbery and murder at a farm in northern Sweden.
The brother of the man who was killed knew he knew the attacker's voice but it was now clear that he had directed the police to another person, Kaj Linna. The brother was the main witness in a case lacking forensic evidence. Lina was convicted, but he maintained his innocence Throughout his imprisonment.
In one of the episodes of the podcast Spar, a podcast for journalists Anton Berg and Martin Johnson, broadcast on the acast platform and investigate in some crimes and cases, during the interview by the two journalists, the witness who contributed to the condemnation of Linna new information contradicts his testimony, And therefore received a new trial that led to his innocence because of insufficient evidence to convict him after 13 years in prison.
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