Iraqi Migrant Hamid Fatlawi Sentenced to Life for Brutally Murdering Swedish Wife Maria with 39 Stab Wounds

In the late hours of August 14, an emergency call was received by the police from Iraqi migrant Hamid Fatlawi, who confessed to having just killed his wife, Maria, a Swedish woman one year his senior. He has now been sentenced to life imprisonment.

Hamid arrived in Sweden from Iraq in the mass asylum invasion year of 2015. Five years later, he met Maria, a Swedish national, through a dating site. She fell deeply in love with the intriguing foreign man from across the world and proposed to him. They got married, but three years later, their marriage ended in murder.

When the police arrived at the crime scene, Hamid and Maria’s residence in Kalix, they found Maria had been the victim of a frenzied knife attack in their bedroom. An autopsy later revealed a total of 39 stab wounds.

There was no doubt that Hamid was the perpetrator of the fatal attack, a fact he admitted when he called the emergency number. He explained his motive by saying, “I went crazy with her.”

During questioning and at the trial, Hamid was more evasive about his motive, claiming to have a blurred memory of the act. He insists that the murder was not premeditated and blames temporary insanity. However, a psychiatric evaluation determined that Hamid does not suffer from any mental disorder.

As for the sentence, the Haparanda District Court found no mitigating circumstances. They considered it an aggravating factor that Maria was murdered in her bedroom, a place where she should have felt safe. Therefore, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Additionally, Hamid is ordered to pay half a million kronor in damages to Maria’s relatives. After serving his sentence, he will be deported back to his home country.

Maria leaves behind a daughter, Therese, from a previous marriage. Therese has also taken custody of Maria’s dog, Donna.

Maria’s friends did not see Hamid in the same idealized way she did. They advised against marrying him, suspecting he was taking advantage of her, but Maria dismissed their concerns, saying, “I am so in love.”

Therese, Maria’s daughter, didn’t have as negative a view of her mother’s Iraqi husband and found him to be kind, although she acknowledges some “cultural clashes” in the marriage.

However, a few months before the murder, Maria herself started to have doubts. She confided in her friends that Hamid’s demeanor had darkened, and he had become more controlling.

She thought it was due to depression and never feared violence from Hamid. This misjudgment tragically cost her life.

Maria’s relatives have publicly released her name and photo because they do not want her to become just an anonymous statistic.

Source: Samnytt