Boy blew himself up and died — three convicted by Court of Appeal

The Svea Court of Appeal has backed a district court’s verdict in a case where a boy blew himself up and died while trying to place a bomb in Östberga, in southern Stockholm.

A 23-year-old man had been convicted of, among other things, incitement to gross devastation endangering the public by the lower court.

Two 16-year-olds, who were friends of the 15-year-old boy who died, are sentenced to one year in secure youth care. ...