The man went to visit his female friend, but was assaulted.
Woman arranged an ambush for her boyfriend in Helsinki in January 2019. The woman had invited her boyfriend for coffee and to take cans to the store.
According to the boyfriend, after he came to the yard, the woman sat in the front seat of his car and shouted to the unknown men: “I have the car keys”.
With the scream, two unknown men came out of the house and a third from behind the house. The men tore, kicked and hit the man until he fell to the ground. They also tried to spray something on him.
The men tried to drag the victim around the yard and to the girlfriend's apartment.
The victim got out of the situation by tearing off his jacket. The man's jacket, wallet and phone were hurriedly taken from him.
Female friend gave a different account of the events and claimed that the male friend had a grudge against him, which is why the man had made up the story about the trap.
He didn't know what happened when he came to the yard with the cans.
The woman also said that she was very intoxicated.
In case one of the men who attacked was also accused. He claimed that he had only intended to talk to the victim, but the victim fell on the slippery yard ground and therefore screamed.
In the year 2022 The Helsinki district court judges that the boyfriend's story is consistent. In its verdict, the Court of Appeal ended up keeping the district court's verdict unchanged.
The district court gave special weight to the fact that the victim was in the clear in the situation, unlike the others. The woman was convicted of theft and the man was convicted of assault and theft.
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