Swedish 'serial killer' who made false confessions freed after 20 years

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Swedish 'serial killer' who made false confessions freed after 20 years

A man once believed to be one of Sweden's worst serial killers was freed by court order on Wednesday after spending two decades confined in a mental institution after a string of false murder confessions. In a series of trials between 1994 and 2001, Sture Bergwall was convicted of eight murders, despite there being no forensic evidence or witness statements, and confessed to many more. But Bergwall, 63, later recanted his confessions, saying he made them to get attention and drugs, and prosecutors dropped the final murder charge in July last year. It is a miscarriage of justice," his lawyer Thomas Olsson told Reuters.

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