Tommy Alexandersson

Stig Tommy Alexandersson (born 1 March 1948) is a Swedish serial killer convicted to life imprisonment for five murders in 1988. He is known as the Butcher from Enköping – a nickname that comes from the fact that he killed his victims with a cleaver and butcher knife.

Early life Alexandersson was born on 1 March 1948 in in Västerås Municipality, Sweden. He grew up in the countryside outside Enköping, Sweden, together with three brothers and three sisters.

Murders On 31 May 1988, Alexandersson broke into an apartment on Bjurholmsgatan on Södermalm in Stockholm, where his former fiancée and a 53-year-old man were. He hit them in the head with a clothes iron and then slit their throats with a "knife-like object". Then he placed the bodies in the beds in the bedroom, poured out petrol – and set them on fire.

On 22 September of the same year, the same day as the acquittal,

Trials Despite the fact that a witness saw Alexanderson completely covered in blood buying petrol at a filling station some distance from the murder scene in Tumba, and despite the fact that the police secured his fingerprints in the apartment, Alexandersson denied any wrongdoing. sentenced Alexanderson to life imprisonment. Attorney Peter Althin appealed the verdict. The murder charges in Stockholm District Court and Huddinge District Court were merged in the Svea Court of Appeal. At the beginning of December 1989, it was reported that the Supreme Court of Sweden had decided not to review the verdict against Alexandersson.

Time in prison During his time behind bars, Alexandersson has not had any visits or phone calls from outside.

On 28 April 2014, he applied for a conjugal visit from outside Eskilstuna, where he was incarcerated at the time. On 28 July, he was allowed to specify what he wanted to do during a conjugal visit. Alexandersson had specified that he wanted to buy toothbrushes, dental floss, a deck of cards, calculators, coloured pencils, postcards, stamps, reading glasses, sneakers, a battery for a wristwatch and submit a lottery system. Following a decision by the Swedish Prison and Probation Service, dated 5 August 2014, Alexandersson (then 66 years old) was released on a guarded conjugal visit. When the conjugal visit took place was kept secret.

In 2017, Alexandersson made news again as he got into a fight with the Swedish Prison and Probation Service – which he believed had thrown away his red Adidas shoes and did not return his stamps. The shoes were one of the five pairs he brought with him to prison. Adidas, Asics, Nike and Mc One. According to the Swedish Prison and Probation Service, the red Adidas shoes were discarded because there were holes in their heels. Alexandersson wanted compensation for this – which the Swedish Prison and Probation Service refused as it was not their responsibility.

As of , Alexandersson remains incarcerated.