Criminologist and author Leif GW Persson has voiced support for the doctors' compensation claim, arguing it is both reasonable and necessary. He noted that the doctors lost their medical licenses and have never received any real rehabilitation. Persson said an economic compensation would also imply an admission of guilt from the state. He believes the doctors should receive significantly more than the one million kronor each awarded in the Kevin case, given that their lives have been shattered over a 40-year period. Persson is deeply critical of how the state and the legal system handled the investigation, calling it "frankly appalling" and "slanderous from day one." He stated that if the two men had not been doctors, there would never have been a trial.
The case became a highly charged social debate and a central feminist issue, with representatives of the radical feminist movement arguing for the doctors' guilt and seeing the murder in a broader context of men's violence against women. However, author Lena Andersson has emailed Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer warning against such rehabilitation, reflecting a split in public opinion. The specific amount of compensation sought by the doctors remains unknown, as does the government's response to the application.
All thinking people surely realize that they have nothing to do with this.
That is what remains, to get some reasonable order to this. All thinking people surely 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 has not been rectified either. Then what remains is that they would still get compensation.
It also implies an apology. You say we have done wrong and therefore you now receive 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 surely many millions in lost income.
Difficult to put a price on it of course, plus all the other suffering that has followed.
The investigation was frankly appalling. It was slanderous from day one. There was a complete lack of evidence.
It brought along a terrible mass of culture bearers who haven't a clue about police work or law for that matter. They gave their strong, unreserved support to this assault.
If they had been plumbers, there would never have been a trial of this.