DNA links suspects to Lindh killing - prosecutor
DNA from the man suspected of stabbing Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh matches traces found on his clothes and the knife used to kill her, a Swedish prosecutor said in Stockholm today.
“There is DNA on the knife as well as a pair of trousers,” chief prosecutor Agneta Blidberg said.
Swedish police said yesterday they had finished their initial investigation into the stabbing of Lindh on September 10 and are ready to try Mijailovic for murder.
The report will be given to Peter Althin, the lawyer for Mijailovic, who has been in custody on suspicion of stabbing Lindh for nearly three months, police spokesman Ulf Goeranzon said.
Althin will have three weeks to read the report before prosecutors can file charges against Mijailovic, who has been in custody since September 24, two weeks after Lindh, 46, was stabbed while shopping in a Stockholm department store with a friend.
Mijailovic has maintained his innocence.
A trial could start as early as January 20, prosecutors have said.
