(AFP) Swedish jihadist Osama Krayem on Thursday appealed a life sentence handed down in July over the 2015 murder of a Jordanian pilot burned alive by the Islamic State group in Syria.
The Stockholm district court was the first to try a person over the infamous killing which sparked outrage around the world.
Krayem’s lawyer appealed the ruling on Thursday to the Svea court of appeal, seeking a full acquittal on the grounds that the district court made “an erroneous judgement about Osama Krayem’s intent.”
Should it not grant a full acquittal, “Osama Krayem requests that the appeals court impose a more lenient sentence,” defence lawyer Petra Eklund said, in the appeal filed with the court.
