Truck Driver Gets Life in Prison for Rape, Murder of 10-Year-Old Girl in Sweden
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A Swedish court has convicted a truck driver of the rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl and a 31-year-old woman.
The Falu District Court sentenced Anders Eklund to life in prison Monday and ordered him to pay 860,000 kronor (US$122,000) in damages to the victims' families.
Eklund was arrested after the girl disappeared in April in a case that generated headlines in Sweden. He confessed to raping and killing her as well as a 31-year-old woman eight years ago.
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The court also found him guilty of attempting to rape another woman in 2006 and for possessing child pornography.
Eklund's lawyer Leif Silbersky told news agency TT he won't appeal.