Swede guilty of immigrant murders

Published on 25/07/2012 00:00

A SWEDISH man who fired sniper shots at immigrants was found guilty of two counts of murder yesterday.

Peter Mangs, 40, was arrested in 2010 after a 12-month shooting spree in the southern city of Malmo. The court found him guilty of the 2009 murder of a Swedish-born woman who was sitting next to an immigrant friend in a car when Mangs fired multiple shots. He was also convicted of murdering an Iranian-born man in 2003 by shooting him in the victim’s apartment.

Mangs was also found guilty of four attempted murders during 2009 and 2010. The court heard how one victim was shot though a window while working out in a gym and another while waiting for a bus.

Mangs will be sentenced after a psychiatric evaluation.