ENGLA HOGLUND - Aged 10 years - Dalarna (Sweden)

Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 10:17 pm

This is so sad!

R.I.P. Engla

logos
Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 11:39 pm

R.I.P Engla,
I pray for you and your family and that they may be strengthened in time and that they are reunited again one day forever. xx


It makes me physically sick to learn of what really happens in our world, and makes me have an even tighter hold of my children but still give them freedom at the same time.
It's hard.
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Exactly what I was thinking , Belle..

It is so sad....mat she rest in peace :cry:

snowwhite
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:18 am

Sleep peacefully little Engla xx

How has such a dangerous monster been allowed free for so long??

hippy
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 1:19 pm

The Local 14/4/2008

Home town mourns Engla's murder

http://www.thelocal.se/11090/20080414/

logos
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 3:18 pm

It's so sad....and it seems to be the same all the time and everywhere you look.....these bastards have history of similar offences and are known to police...WHY oh WHY does nobody lock them away and never ever let them out again ??? I really can't understand all this.... all those solved cases where rape and cruelty against children play a role show that those bastards fall back into their evil habits and yet they are beeing set free again and considered as not dangerous anymore

vovvan
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 3:20 pm

According to the lawyer of Anders Eklund, the 42 year old man who has confessed, the murder of Engla was not a sexual crime and not planned.


Sad to see that Brian Ladd got it wrong this time. :cry:

pam supportfromireland
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 4:39 pm

It is just all so terrible. How on earth are the family going to cope? This case has hit me hard as used to cycle in the country as a kid.The exploring and freedom is gone!

ewe2
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 5:37 pm

Another little angel in heaven. Rest In Peace Little Engla. :cry:
What a sad world we live in.

shellington
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 9:04 am

It must be horrific for her parents but even worse because this was the first time they had allowed her to come home from football alone. There was also a case here of a boy who was abducted and murdered after meeting a man on the bus. This too was his first time of being allowed to travel alone home from school. WHY WHY WHY, terrifies me with my own children, it really does.

merlynsam
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 9:15 am

I pray for this little angel. May she be at peace now - and free from all harm.

ewe2
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 11:26 pm

belle
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 5:03 pm

Thank you, Ewe, it's lovely.

I pray for her and her family as how are they going to come to terms with this.

pam supportfromireland
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 2:53 pm

Lovely image Ewe. Thank you.

vovvan
Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 8:32 pm

Engla Höglund was buried today and her funeral was to be seen on the tv as a request from her family. They wanted to share what kind of girl Engla was and not only letting people know about the moment her life ended. In the church they showed a video of her dancing and singing.

Engla wanted to be a performer and there was a lot of singing and music on the funeral. Engla´s big sister Sol (means sun) and her best friend were singing "my heart will go on" for example.

Remembering you beautiful little girl Engla.
xxx

Firdano - Stockholm (AFP-TT) (Google Translation)

Aug 9, 2008

Englas killer is considered healthy

The Swedish man who killed 10 year old Engla Höglund, is considered healthy NOK to be sentenced to prison.

Anders Eklund has also killed 31 year old Pernilla Hellgren.

A forensic evaluation shows that Eklund has a mental disorder, but it is not serious. The same applies to the condition when the crime was committed, concludes Socialstyrelsens legal advice.

Prosecutors estimate that Eklund will be sentenced to life imprisonment when the proceedings concluded 25 September.

Engla Höglund disappeared 5 April from the Swedish village Stjärnsund as she was walking home on a bicycle.

The family took the bike around 500 meters from home, and several hundred people participated in the search for the girl.

Two days later, Eklund arrested. The evidence against him consisted partly of photographs of both Engla and Eklunds car in Stjärnsund, who coincidentally was taken by people nearby.

A few days later, Eklund also admitted to killing 31-year-old Pernilla Hellgren in Falun in 2000. (AFP)

http://www.firda.no/Utenriks/article3763760.ece

DN.se (Google Translation)

25th September 2008

The murder of Engla

Engla Höglund's mother left the courtroom

It became turbulent in the courtroom when Eklund's lawyer Silbersky brought an action for his client be sentenced to psychiatric care. Engla Höglund's mother was allowed to leave the courtroom after an emotional outburst.

- Regarding penalty should we ask ourselves who is really Anders Eklund? Have we received a reply to that? We have received answers to it by the forensic psychiatric examinations? Yeah and no. What we know today is that the data are conflicting, "said Silbersky.

But it was not the speech itself which angered. But it was when Silbersky, which he also previously made during the trial, wanted to quote from Stig Dagerman's "To kill a child" as Engla Höglund's mother were unable to sit and listen anymore.

- I get mad if you do so. I do not buy it here. How can you sit and defend him? she said and stood up from his seat.

The mother was addressed also directly to Eklund and said she wanted to meet him to talk. Anders Eklund himself was apparently unaffected by the outbreak. The mother was brought out from the courtroom.

- Anders is an odd and lonely person. He is a person in need out of care, "said Silbersky after the mother left the courtroom.

Silbersky believes that Eklund shall be punished by the right mental health care despite the results of the studies, showing that he not been so mentally ill that he could be sentenced to prison.

- The most important thing for him is that society accepts that he is in need of treatment. He wants health care and he wants to ensure that the situation could be so good that he might at some point, sometime well into the future can go out into society and be a person we can trust, "he continued.

Court announced on 6 October.

http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/engla-hoglunds-mamma-lamnade-rattssalen-1.561549

Sveriges Radio (Google Translation)

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

"Many questions from the kids'

On Monday came life sentence against Anders Eklund, who is convicted of the murder of Pernilla Hellgren and Engla Höglund. And for the little village has Stjärnsund murder Engla Höglund brought great changes.

- This is something we will always have to bear with us, "says Eva Larsson, president of Stjärnsund School.
"It will be a stronger bond that we have together"

But even if the murder of ten-year-old Engla Höglund has proposed breaking an idyll it has also knytit together people of Stjärnsund.

- There will be a stronger bond that we have together, "says Eva Larsson.

It's been over half a year for ten-year-old Engla Höglund disappeared as she cycled home from the football field. Which meant that the village went out of houses to help in the search. But a week after the disappearance, Anders Eklund admitted murder Engla and her body was found.

At the school where Eva Larsson works have time after the murder led to many questions from children and now that the appeal will also fall school to talk about the appeal especially the older children.

- It's a step in that process what happened. That we may talk about what this kind of ruling means, "says Eva Larsson, headmaster at the school.

http://www.sr.se/DALARNA/nyheter/arkiv.asp?ProgramID=223&Max=2008-10-07&Min=2002-04-05&PeriodStart=2008-10-07&Period=2&Artikel=2359249

Per Anders Eklund's trial began on July 18, 2008. He was charged with two murders ( Pernilla Hellgren and Engla Höglund), two rapes and child pornography charges. He was found guilty in August and declared not mentally ill.

On October 6, 2008, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the two murders, one rape in Sandviken 2006 and on child pornography charges.

I will lock this thread now.