On Tuesday, the police found a Swedish woman and her son dead in a residence in Hörby, Skåne. Shortly thereafter, the woman’s Syrian partner was arrested on suspicion of double murder. However, the man has now been released, and the police suspect instead that the mother killed her son and then took her own life.

The school alerted the police at 10:45 on Tuesday. When the police and ambulance arrived at the family’s townhouse in the northern part of the municipality, the woman in her 40s and her ten-year-old son were found dead.

The deaths are being investigated as murder, and at 13:37 the same day, the woman’s Syrian partner, in his 50s, was arrested at his workplace and taken to the detention center in Lund. The man was reasonably suspected of double murder, but the detention applied to the lower degree of suspicion, and now the prosecutor has decided to release him.

The man, who is from Syria, has denied that he has committed any crime against his family. He does not have any previous convictions.

The mother is suspected

On Thursday, the Public Prosecution Authority announced that the man, who had been detained, had been released as the suspicions against him had significantly weakened.

“The extensive investigative measures taken by the police have now led to a significant weakening of the suspicions against the man. He has therefore been released and will soon be formally removed from the investigation,” said senior prosecutor Josefin Sävlund.

Now that the investigation has clarified, the police and senior prosecutor Josefin Sävlund are directing the suspicions towards the woman who was found dead.

“At present, the circumstances in the case indicate that it is not a matter of two cases of murder but one, and the person the suspicion is directed towards is the woman who is no longer alive,” said the prosecutor, adding:

“I am releasing this information to avoid fueling any theories and rumors. At present, the circumstances indicate that it is not a matter of two cases of murder but one, and the person the suspicion is directed towards is a woman who is no longer alive.”