For an ex-hockey player sleeping for an absolute imprisonment

Supreme Court (KKO) hardened the former ice hockey player Hannu Pikkarainen the rape sentence received. Pikkarainen raped a woman sleeping in the summer of 2020.

The Supreme Court raised Pikkarainen’s suspended prison sentence to the year and nine months of imprisonment. Otherwise, the Court of Appeal’s judgment did not change.

In its judgment, the Helsinki Court of Appeal had considered that a fair sentence for the act would have been one year and nine months in prison. However, the Court of Appeal reduced the sentence by three months because of the greater publicity. The penalty had been prescribed for a year and a half conditional.

Mixed Pikkarainen that the prosecutor was granted an appeal to the Supreme Court.

The prosecutor insisted that the criterion of reasoning would not be subject to the punishment and that Pikkarainen’s penalty be increased and increased into absolute imprisonment.

Pikkarainen denied the rape and demanded that the prosecution in his complaint.

The matter was that the woman had fallen asleep in a private apartment and woke up to Pikkarainen raped her. According to Pikkarainen, the victim had been awake and the sexual intercourse had occurred in agreement.

According to the KKO, Pikkarainen had been aware or had to be considered quite likely that the victim had slept and had been in an unknowing state at the start of the sexual connection. As a result, the victim had been incapable of defending himself or expressing his will.

As with the lower courts, the Supreme Court considered it that the victim had been asleep, and that Pikkarainen had exploited his state and committed rape.

Supreme Court It disagreed with the Court of Appeal whether the punishment had to be lowered for publicity.

Pikkarainen had told the court that he had lost his work and had an impact on his private life.

The Supreme Court stated that Pikkarainen was to some extent a publicity person. As a result, he could have been prepared for the crime and the trial to be public and presented in the media.

The KKO stated that rape is also a crime that it itself may cause the loss of work and relationships.

« The Supreme Court considers that the crime, which is considered to be, is not considered to be, which is considered to be, to be considered to be, in a quality or scope, or particularly marked by the type of crime.

The Supreme Court outlined that the sentence should not be mitigated due to publicity that followed the crime or proceedings.

Kko He sentenced Pikkarainen to one year and nine months in prison for rape.

The nearly two -year imprisonment supported its condemnation more absolute than conditional, KKO considered.

« The length of the sentence and the reprehensibility of the procedure require the imprisonment to be condemned as an absolute imprisonment. »

Previously The Court of Appeal and the District Court had also considered that Pikkarainen should have understood when the victim was sleeping.

According to the court, Pikkarainen should have resolved the victim’s awake and his will for sexual intercourse.

In the spring of 2022, the Helsinki District Court had sentenced Pikkarainen to a two -year imprisonment.