Swedish prosecutors have closed their investigation into the 1986 murder of Prime Minister Olof Palme because their main suspect, a Swede opposed to Mr Palme's leftwing policies, is dead.
"We can't get around one person as the perpetrator. He is Stig Engstrom," chief prosecutor Krister Petersson told reporters, referring to a man dubbed "the Skandia man" in Swedish media.
"Because he is dead, I can't press charges against him, and have therefore decided to close the investigation," he said.
Engstrom was questioned as a witness early on in the investigation as he was near the murder scene but police deemed him unreliable as he changed his story several times.
People lay roses on the grave of former Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme Source: AFP
The killing, which current Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has described as an "open wound", has stumped investigators for decades.
Mr Palme was killed on 28 February, 1986, after leaving a Stockholm cinema with his wife Lisbet to walk home, having dismissed his bodyguards for the evening.
An unidentified attacker shot Mr Palme in the back and fled, leaving the 59-year-old dying in a pool of blood on the sidewalk.
More than 10,000 people have been questioned over the years, but authorities do not currently have anyone placed under formal suspicion.
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