Värmland District Court has sentenced 31-year-old Emma Alexandersson to 18 years in prison for murdering her former partner in Kristinehamn. The ruling cites jealousy after she saw text messages and photos on his phone. The woman claims self-defense, but the court rejects her account.
Just after 4 a.m. on July 20, 2025, police found a man in his 50s bleeding in his home in Kristinehamn. He had been stabbed to death with a kitchen knife. His ex-girlfriend, 31-year-old Emma Alexandersson, was recently sentenced by Värmland District Court to 18 years in prison for the murder. The ruling states she killed her former partner with multiple stabs due to jealousy. “It has emerged that (the woman) in the relationship with (the man) was jealous, controlling and had previously displayed aggressive behavior and threatened (the man),” the court wrote in its judgment. The couple got together in 2019 and lived together for over five years, but continued an intimate relationship after the breakup. The relationship was described as destructive. That evening, they attended a barbecue and went to a bar with friends. Alexandersson arrived at the man's home at 3:43 a.m. and left ten minutes later with a bloody knife in her handbag. In interrogation, she claimed the man threatened to rape and kill her, pulled out the knife, and stabbed himself in the chest after grabbing her hand. “He kind of stabbed himself,” she said. The court dismissed this as a post-hoc construction, citing injuries, blood patterns, and her jealousy upon seeing photos and texts from another woman on the man's phone. A friend of the man testified: “He kept saying he was afraid she would take his life.” The court concluded there was no self-defense situation.
