Eva Persson's knife

Eva Persson's knife links a claimed habit of carrying a weapon for self-protection to the stabbing of taxi driver Johan Lundberg. Its broken tip, recovered by police after the attack, gives the robbery a material trace: the knife was not merely present but was used with enough force to damage it.

Carrying and Earlier Use

During questioning, Sonja Hökberg said that Eva always carried a knife, just as Hökberg said she herself always carried a hammer. Hökberg presented the weapons as precautions against danger in the street. In the same account, she said Eva had once cut someone who had tried to grope her. The interview thus placed the knife within a history of purported self-defence, even as the account exposed how readily a weapon carried for protection could become part of an assault.

The Attack on Johan Lundberg

Hökberg described a plan in which Eva sat beside the driver while she sat in the back. They intended to make him stop, with the details depending on his age; when the driver was an older man, Hökberg said, she struck him with the hammer and Eva stabbed him with the knife. The two took his wallet and mobile phone. Hökberg said they divided the money and Eva discarded the wallet; the police estimated that the cash taken was probably about 600 kronor. The knife was therefore one part of a coordinated attack, not an incidental object encountered during the robbery.

Recovery and Physical Evidence

Police later found the knife among leaves. Nyberg identified it as a fairly large kitchen knife and reported that its tip had broken off, probably after hitting a rib. He inferred that Eva had used surprising force, while noting that the knife itself was cheap. That damage turned an ordinary domestic implement into physical evidence of the violence: its broken point recorded, in material form, the force used against Johan Lundberg. The recovery also corroborated the confession's central account that Eva had stabbed the driver.