Martin Peter Trenneborg: Swedish doctor who abducted and imprisoned woman is jailed for 10 years
Trenneborg drugged the unnamed woman with strawberries spiked with a sedative in Stockholm, before taking her to a bunker in his isolated house in southern Sweden
A Swedish doctor who abducted a woman and kept her locked in a bunker for almost a week has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Martin Peter Trenneborg, who held the woman for six days, had admitted to kidnapping her but denied and was acquitted of a rape charge. The prosecutor said he had planned to hold her prisoner for years.
Stockholm’s District Court said in a unanimous verdict that the doctor had planned the deed for a long time. “Furthermore, the doctor subjected the victim to serious risks by medicating her and by keeping her locked up in very unpleasant forms in the light- and soundproof bunker,” it said.
The doctor, 38, drugged the woman – who has not been named – with strawberries spiked with a sedative in Stockholm, before taking her to a bunker in his isolated house in southern Sweden, 340 miles away. Trenneborg claimed he suffered a mental disorder at the time, but the court described the disorder as “not serious”, adding that it had not affected the verdict. He was ordered to pay 180,000 kronor (£15,130) in damages to the woman.
Reuters
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