A judge has ordered a Swedish businesswoman worth about £250 million to pay her estranged husband more than £6.5 million following the breakdown of their six-year marriage. Louise Backstrom and Martin Wennberg, who are both in their 30s, had been embroiled in a dispute over money in a London private family court. Mr Wennberg wanted a financial package worth more than £40 million but Deputy High Court judge Leslie Samuels has ruled against him. Judge Samuels, who …
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Swedish police have finally identified the man they believe killed Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986. Palme was shot in the back as he walked home from the cinema with his wife in Stockholm, shortly after he dismissed his security team for the day. The assassination took place on Sweden’s busiest road, Sveavagen, and more than a dozen witnesses saw a man fire the shots before fleeing the scene. Chief Prosecutor Krister Petersson said the man has been identified …