A man has been released and the investigation dropped after being detained for a six-year-old rape in Högdalen, Stockholm, following an unexpected DNA match. The man was arrested last week for shoplifting in a Stockholm store, and his DNA matched traces from a rape against a woman in October 2020. The woman has reportedly changed her statements from 2020 in a new interview, indicating she was forced to support herself by selling sex at the time and that the man was a customer who was mean to her and did not want to pay what they had agreed upon.
The woman is not suspected of any crime. Police still suspect the man of buying sex from her and also suspect him of minor theft after the shoplifting arrest. An investigator stated that the DNA allowed them to solve the case by determining it was not a crime, preventing an unsolved rape.