20-year-old Saga Forsgren Elneborg and her unborn child are dead after she fell in love with the wrong man.
The 7-months pregnant woman was found strangled to death at home in the city of Örebro.
The father of the baby Mohamedamin Abdirisek Ibrahim, 22, killed her in April last year rather than face the shame of introducing the mother of his child to his Muslim family.
Police released a 1,000 page arrest report containing pictures of the possible murder weapon, the lamp cord, and crime scene in the bedroom - where Saga's body was found next to her bed, reportedly buried under a marble table top.
Indeed, prosecutors state that he grew up in a household that believed dating a 'white' woman is 'not okay' and that he 'must date a woman of the same culture' - and concealed the two year relationship from his mother because she would not accept it.
In text messages to Saga, Ibrahim told her he would tell his relatives about their relationship and baby on April 28, 2023 - the night of Saga's murder.
He expressed feeling nervous about telling them and wrote: 'Feels like I can almost feel my heartbeat all the way down to my stomach.'
Saga tried to reassure him and promised that 'it will be fine'. In his last text to his girlfriend, Ibrahim claimed he told one person. Saga's follow-up messages, asking him how it was going and for him to 'talk to me', remained unanswered.
State prosecutor Elisabeth Anderson alleges that Ibrahim then went to Saga's flat, where he 'violently' strangled her to death with the cable of her bedside lamp, according to local outlet Aftonbladet.
Further text messages between the Saga and her alleged killer revealed that Ibrahim tried to convince his girlfriend to have an abortion shortly after she got pregnant.
'I know we can make it, but I won't be able to keep my family. If it had been possible, there would have been no problem with keeping the child,' he told her.
But Saga was excited about becoming a mother, telling him that she would have the baby, even without her boyfriend's support, according to Anderson.
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Pregnant woman, 20, is murdered in Sweden in suspected honour killing
Saga Forsgren Elneborg, 20, was strangled to death with a lamp cord in her flat in the Swedish city of Örebro.
