The Stureby case
Therese Johansson Rojo was at an outdoor gathering in the Stockholm suburb of Stureby on the night of June 6–7, 2009. Around midnight she was found critically injured in a wooded area. Police arrested a teenage boy and a teenage girl the following morning.
The boy later acknowledged killing Therese but disputed the legal classification, arguing for manslaughter rather than murder. The girl denied criminal responsibility. Prosecutors alleged that she had repeatedly pressured the boy to kill Therese after a personal conflict involving the three teenagers.
Text messages and responsibility
Text-message traffic between the two defendants became a central part of the prosecution. Sveriges Radio's reporting from the case described the messages as evidence that the girl had urged the boy to kill Therese and that the courts treated her influence as criminally significant.
The distinction between the two convictions matters. The boy was convicted of murder. The girl was convicted for her role in causing or encouraging the killing — described in Swedish reporting as anstiftan till mord, commonly translated as incitement to murder, while some English-language coverage used accessory-to-murder wording. This archive does not collapse those separate legal roles into one.
Appeal and final status
On February 5, 2010, the Svea Court of Appeal upheld the core convictions and imposed one year and eight months — 20 months — of secure juvenile care on each teenager. The appellate court concluded that the girl understood the serious risk created by her pressure on the boy and nevertheless continued it.
The case then reached Sweden's highest court through requests for further review. On March 24, 2010, the Supreme Court declined to take the case. That decision left the Court of Appeal judgment in force and made the convictions final.
Timeline
June 7, 2009: Therese is found fatally injured in Stureby; two teenagers are arrested.
June 10, 2009: the two defendants are detained on suspicion of murder and incitement to murder.
August 2009: the trial begins at Södertörn District Court.
2009: the district court convicts the boy of murder and the girl for inciting the murder.
February 5, 2010: Svea Court of Appeal upholds the convictions and fixes 20-month juvenile-care sanctions.
March 24, 2010: Sweden's Supreme Court declines further review, leaving the appellate judgment in force.
Current status
The case is Solved / Adjudicated. Therese's murder resulted in final convictions of two juvenile defendants for distinct legal roles. The page does not name them because reliable contemporary reporting treated their juvenile identities as protected.