38-year-old police officer Ken Andersson in Stockholm has been sentenced to a conditional sentence and community service after assaulting his own older sister. This is stated in a court ruling obtained by Samnytt. The background to the assault was that the sister voiced criticism of NATO.

It’s a Sunday evening in November last year when a family gathering is held in the Stockholm area. Just under a dozen people, most of them cousins, are invited to the home of a woman in her 40s.

They’re having dinner, playing games, and drinking alcohol. The get-together is described as a pleasant evening where everyone is happy and having fun.

The NATO Issue

At least, it’s pleasant until one of the cousins, a man in his 20s, shares that through his job in the Armed Forces, he’s been offered the chance to go to Estonia to “drive a tank”.

This is something that one of his relatives, a woman who works as a journalist at TV4, responds to. She worries about her younger relative and fears he could come to harm if stationed by the Russian border.

– Think about the consequences because we are in NATO, she says.

This triggers a verbal argument that, according to a witness, goes on for at least an hour. Another attendee at the party, 38-year-old police officer Ken Andersson, challenges his TV4-employed relative.

Ken Andersson has a background as a professional soldier, and he believes Sweden’s NATO membership is the right thing. He cannot accept that there are people close to him who are critical of the military alliance.

Several people at the party try to intervene and calm the heated discussion. They suggest playing a game instead, but this doesn’t help.

Bloody Assault

It’s the 38-year-old’s older sister who has invited everyone to the family gathering. Eventually, she steps in and tells her younger brother it’s time for him to go home. He does not accept this directive.

– I think it’s unfair that I have to go home just because there’s a discussion. I mean, at a party, there can be arguments and debates about all sorts of things, he later explains in a police interview.

Accounts differ regarding what happens next. However, witnesses agree that Ken Andersson hits his sister in the face with his fist, causing her to fall to the floor. The blow is so hard that it breaks her nasal bone.

The 38-year-old police officer himself claims that it was his sister who slapped him.

After the commotion, a chair with a broken leg is left on the floor. A painting and a windowpane have been shattered. The police officer’s older sister is in shock and bleeding heavily after the assault. There is blood on the floor and walls.

The cousins manage together to overpower the 38-year-old police officer and throw him out of the apartment. For now, the fight for NATO is over.

Don’t Want to Arrest a Colleague

Both Ken Andersson and the other people at the party call the police emergency number 112. And it’s some of the 38-year-old police officer’s colleagues who respond to the disturbance.

The police incident commander does not think that the violent police colleague needs to be arrested. Instead, it is decided he should be driven home. One of the responding officers questions this, arguing that since the suspect is related to the person he assaulted, there is what is called a risk of collusion. In other words, there is a risk that he’ll try to sabotage the investigation. Therefore, he should be arrested.

The critical officer further argues that it would be more appropriate if the case were handled by a different police district. Moreover, the Special Public Prosecutor should be notified since the suspect is a police officer.

The police duty prosecutor disagrees, but eventually agrees to involve another police district. There, a different assessment is made that Ken Andersson should have been arrested and that the investigation should have been handed over to the Special Public Prosecutor.

It is indeed that public prosecutor’s office that eventually receives the case.

Convicted of Assault

Ken Andersson is charged with three counts of assault and one count of trespassing, as he did not leave his sister’s residence when told to do so. He is now convicted of assaulting his older sister but acquitted of the other charges.

The penalty is a conditional sentence and 50 hours of community service. The district court states in its verdict that the severity of the crime corresponds to two months in prison, but Andersson receives a lighter sentence. This is partly because it will cost him his job as a police officer.

In both police interviews and during the trial, Ken Andersson denies all criminal allegations. He claims his older sister and the other relatives at the party attacked him.

He alleges that during the party, his older sister said many “very mean” things to him. Among other things, that he is stupid and retarded.

– She hates me. She says she wishes I was dead, claims Ken Andersson about his sister.

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