The Criminal Hour

“The Doctor’s Prison”-Martin Peter’s Case


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Martin Peter Trenneborg, a Swedish doctor, was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2016 for kidnapping a woman and imprisoning her in a soundproof bunker he had meticulously constructed over several years. He drugged the victim with sedative-laced strawberries and transported her 550 kilometers to his rural home, where he intended to keep her captive long-term. The victim escaped after six days when Trenneborg took her to the police station. While he admitted to the abduction, he denied rape charges. His case drew comparisons to Josef Fritzl and sparked public outrage over his relatively lenient sentence

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