Woman drugged, kidnapped, and locked up in soundproof bunker by Swedish doctor

A Swedish doctor has been charged with rape and kidnapping after he confessed to drugging a woman with sedative-laced strawberries and locking her up in a soundproof bunker.

Prosecutors said the 38-year-old had intended to keep her in the bunker for years.

The man’s defence lawyer described the case as an elaborate plot to find a girlfriend, which unravelled when he walked into a police station with the woman on September 18 last year — allegedly to show police she was fine.

Defence lawyer Mari Schaub said her client has confessed to all allegations except rape, but wants the kidnapping charge reduced to a lower charge of deprivation of liberty.

According to the indictment, the defendant built what was meant to look like a machine shed next to his countryside home in southern Sweden.

Inside it was a concrete bunker with double metal doors.

The doctor, whose name was not published in Sweden in line with privacy rules, allegedly made contact with the victim by phone and met her once before he abducted her on September 12 .

The woman passed out after he gave her chocolate-coated strawberries laced with rohypnol, also known as a date-rape drug.

Prosecutors say he had sex with her while she was unconscious, which Schaub said he denies.

He then wheeled her to his car in a wheelchair and drove 530km to his home, giving her drugs intravenously during the journey to keep her sedated.

When they arrived the next morning, the defendant locked the woman inside the bunker, where she remained until September 18, except for a few brief occasions when he led her in handcuffs to his home to take a shower, the indictment said.

He said he wanted to keep her there for years, according to the indictment.

Prosecutors said the defendant’s plot started falling apart when he returned to the woman’s apartment on September 17 to fetch some of her belongings.

That was when he found out police were searching for the woman and had changed the locks on her front door.

He returned to his home, picked up the woman, and drove to a Stockholm police station the next day with the intent of picking up the new keys to her apartment and making her assure police that she was fine.

The police officers got suspicious and took the woman aside and she told them she had been kidnapped.