Woman froze to death

In December 2022, a woman in her 40s died when she was thrown out into the cold at night in Njurunda in Sweden, reports the Swedish Expressen.

Five people were gathered in an apartment in a residential area that evening. Three men, and two women.

They drank alcohol and enjoyed themselves, but after a while several of them became “very drunk”. The owner of the apartment, a woman in her 50s, thought it was too loud and threw the guests out.

Took the mobile phone and the card

The three men are said to have gone on to a nearby home while the woman stayed outside the home from which she had been thrown out.

During the night it was almost 20 degrees Celsius, and the following day the woman was found dead. She froze to death.

The prosecutor in the case believed that the owner of the apartment was negligent, and charged her with having caused the death of another due to the eviction and that she had locked her out. This despite the fact that the friend was strongly “influenced by alcohol and drugs”, writes the Swedish newspaper.

The woman in her 40s was also unable to call or pay for a ride, as one of the men took the woman’s mobile phone and credit card.

Now, almost a year and a half later, that woman has been acquitted.

“Right to evict guests”

Sundsvall’s district court ruled that the older woman’s “actions” contributed to the younger woman’s death, but that a person “generally” has the right to throw out their guests and that there is no law to help people in need.

The court also does not consider that the woman was negligent.

The judgment states that it has not been proven that she knew that the younger woman was missing her mobile phone and payment card, or understood how cold it was until later at night.

However, the woman has been sentenced to prison for two years for serious violence in February two years ago, when she stabbed her boyfriend in the shoulder with a knife during an argument.