Two doctors who were pointed out in the murder of Catrine da Costa are now demanding compensation from the state, according to multiple reports. The amount they will request or receive has not been disclosed, and the state's response remains unclear. In the well-known Kevin case, the two brothers received one million kronor each, providing a potential benchmark for such claims.
Leif GW Persson, a criminologist and author, has criticized the investigation and those he calls 'culture bearers' for driving suspicions against the doctors without evidence. According to TV4 Nyheterna, Leif GW Persson described the investigation as miserable and defamatory from the first day, lacking evidence completely. He also raged against the 'culture bearers' who he says drove the suspicions despite the lack of evidence, though their identities are unspecified.
All thinking people realize that they have nothing to do with this.
The case became a highly charged societal debate and a central feminist issue, with radical feminist movement representatives arguing for the doctors' guilt, though these representatives are not named. The doctors lost their medical licenses, and the current status of those licenses or any appeals is unknown. According to TV4 Nyheterna, Leif GW Persson described how their licenses were revoked without the possibility of appeal, and he argued that compensation should include an apology for the wrongdoing.
The specific evidence or lack thereof that led to the doctors being pointed out in the murder case has not been detailed publicly.
It is what remains, to get some reasonable justice in this. All thinking people realize that they have nothing to do with this, but their lives have been shattered.
Their licenses were revoked, it could not be appealed. But that hasn't gotten any justice either. Then what remains is that one should still get compensation.
It also means an apology. You say that we have done wrong and therefore you now get financial compensation.
The doctors should reasonably get significantly more. Considering that their lives have been shattered over a 40-year period. The money they have lost is certainly many millions in work income.
Hard to put a price on that naturally, plus all the other sufferings that have followed.
The investigation was, frankly speaking, miserable. It was defamatory from the first day. It completely lacked evidence.
It brought with it a terrible lot of culture bearers who have no clue about police work or law for that matter. They gave their strong, unreserved support to this violation.
If they had been plumbers, there would never have been a trial of this.
It was the very cork that the whole thing hung on. It may do well in some sort of political context, but it has nothing to do in the legal context.