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Carl Gustaf Christer Pettersson (23 April 1947 – 29 September 2004) was a Swedish criminal who was a suspect in the 1986 assassination of Olof Palme, the Prime Minister of Sweden. In 1989 he was convicted of the murder in district court but acquitted on appeal the following year.
Jun 10, 2020 · One man did go to jail. Convicted criminal Christer Pettersson - who has no connection to the prosecutor - was identified in a line-up by Lisbet Palme and jailed for life in 1989.
In December 1988, almost three years after Palme's death, Christer Pettersson, a criminal, drug user and alcoholic, who had previously been imprisoned for manslaughter, was arrested for the murder of Palme. Picked out by Mrs Palme at a lineup as the killer, Pettersson was tried and convicted of the murder, but was later acquitted on appeal to ...
Jun 10, 2020 · A known petty criminal called Christer Pettersson (no relation to the journalist) was jailed for life in 1989 over the assassination, but he won an appeal later that year and died in 2004.
Jun 11, 2020 · On June 10, 2020, chief state prosecutor Krister Petersson identified the killer as Stig Engström, an eyewitness dubbed “Skandia Man” during the initial murder investigation. However, no...
May 24, 2018 · A known petty criminal called Christer Pettersson was jailed for life for the crime in 1989, but he won his freedom on appeal later that year. He died in 2004.
Jun 10, 2020 · Christer Pettersson died in 2004. In a 2018 interview with The New York Times, Thomas Petterson, the journalist, said Engström, who had served in the military, had access to the same kind of...
