SWEDISH DOCTOR JAILED 10 YEARS FOR ABDUCTING WOMAN

A Swedish doctor who abducted a woman and kept her locked up in a bunker for almost a week was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison, but was acquitted of aggravated rape because of lack of proof. In a unanimous verdict, the Stockholm District Court found Martin Trenneborg, 38, guilty of meticulously planning the woman’s abduction over a long period and of subjecting the victim to serious risk by sedating her and keeping her locked up in a soundproofed bunker he built inside a machine shed next to his home. The woman, who was not named, passed out after he gave her chocolatecoated strawberries laced with Rohypnol, also known as a “date- rape drug,” before taking her to the bunker. Trenneborg, who had admitted to keeping the woman locked in the bunker, claimed he suffered a mental disorder at the time. The court said found no mitigating circumstances and described the doctor’s mental disorder as “not serious,” adding it had not affected the verdict. Trenneborg was ordered to pay US$21,000 in damages to the woman.