Masked medic ‘kidnapped woman to hold her as sex slave’
A DOCTOR drugged, kidnapped and raped a woman he planned to hold hostage in a dungeon at his home, Swedish police say.
The 38-year-old drugged the woman with Rohypnol when he visited her for a check-up in her Stockholm home.
The unnamed doctor, who has not been named by prosecutors, has been nicknamed the ‘Swedish Fritzl’ due to similarities with the notorious case of Austrian Josef Fritzl, who locked his daughter in a cellar for 24 years. After drugging his victim, the doctor is then said to have raped her, put her in a wheelchair and driven her to his home. During the 350-mile journey, it is claimed he wore two rubber masks to hide his identity from her. The mask of a bearded man and an elderly woman were found in his bathroom.
The woman, in her 30s, was held in the purpose-built 650 sq ft cellar in the south of the country for a week, police allege. It is believed the doctor intended to hold her captive for many years but panicked after he found police searching her flat and took her to a police station.
The doctor has reportedly admitted drugging the woman with chocolatecovered strawberries laced with Rohypnol and kidnapping her, but denies rape charges.
Police estimate the man spent five years building the concrete-enforced bunker. They said its walls were a foot thick and it contained a bedroom, functioning toilet and a kitchen.
The doctor said he took blood and other samples from the woman to check if she had sexually transmitted diseases. He tested the samples himself at a lab in his place of work.
When he returned to her house to find police searching the property, the doctor panicked and drove the woman to a police station.
Despite telling her to pretend that she was safe, officers soon grew suspicious and arrested the man.
Chief prosecutor Peter Claeson said: ‘We believe his intention has been to keep the woman locked up for several years. We also suspect him of planning this for years.’
A friend of the doctor said the man was socially awkward but polite, adding: ‘The more I read about this, the more confused I get. He’s not the kind of person you look at and think “he’ll lock up and abuse a woman”.’