WORLD : Killer Pleads With Palme Widow
Christer Pettersson, convicted of the 1986 murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, pleaded with Palme’s widow at an appeals court hearing today after she again identified him as the killer.
“I want to ask you here and now to look the judge in the eyes for 10 seconds and say that I killed your husband,” Pettersson said.
Palme’s widow Lisbet, facing Pettersson across the Stockholm courtroom, responded by turning and nodding to the seven-man panel of four judges and three lay assessors.
Pettersson, 42, a self-confessed thief and drug addict, was jailed for life by a split Stockholm district court July 27.
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