Migrant convicted of killing Swedish refugee center worker

8 August 2016, 4:02 pm

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A Swedish court on Monday sentences a teenage Ethiopian asylum seeker to psychiatric care for fatally stabbing a young woman working at a youth refugee housing center in January.

The teen, identified in court documents as Youssaf Khaliif Nuur, had been charged with murder but the district court in the southwestern town of Gothenburg found him guilty of involuntary manslaughter and aggravated assault.

A court-ordered examination found Nuur was mentally unstable, and this may have meant that he did not know that the stabs to Mezher’s thigh would cause her to bleed to death, the court said.

Mezher, a 22-year-old of Lebanese origin, was stabbed as she tried to break up a fight in the center for unaccompanied minors.

— AFP