Sweden Attack Suspect admits to 'terror crime'

Suspected Stockholm truck attacker Rakhmat Akilov, a 39-year-old Uzbek and jihadist sympathiser, yesterday admitted  to committing a "terrorist crime" by mowing down pedestrians on a busy street, killing four and injuring 15 others.

"Akilov confesses to a terrorist crime and accepts his custody detention," his lawyer Johan Eriksson told a custody hearing in a Stockholm district court.

Akilov, a construction worker who had been refused permanent residency in Sweden in June 2016, had gone underground last year after receiving a deportation order, police said. The Aftonbladet newspaper reported that he had said he was "pleased with what he had done".