SWEDEN: A Swedish prosecutor said yesterday that the DNA of the man suspected of killing foreign minister Anna Lindh in September had been found on a knife and a discarded pair of bloodstained trousers.
It was the first time a legal official had made public any of the evidence surrounding the stabbing of Lindh, a mother of two and tipped to be the next prime minister, in a Stockholm store on September 10th.
Asked on Swedish radio about earlier leaked reports that the suspect's DNA had been found on the knife dropped by the fleeing killer, and on a pair of bloody trousers found elsewhere, prosecutor Agneta Blidberg said: "There is DNA on the knife and there is DNA also on a pair of trousers."
The prosecution will hand the evidence to suspect Mr Mijailo Mijailovic's defence lawyer. The defendant has until January 8th to respond.