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Swedish lawyer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Henning Elof Sjöström (13 May 1922, Burträsk – 16 October 2011) was a Swedish defense attorney, and regarded as Sweden's first celebrity lawyer due to his high-profile cases. Sjöström was the attorney for Kurt Haijby during the Haijby affair, in which Haijby was accused of blackmailing Swedish King Gustav V. He was also known for the through the trial of the "neurosedyn children" 1964–1968 and for having defended Gunnar Bengtsson after the Söderhamn courthouse murders in 1971 and Carl-Eric Björkegren.
Sjöström was married to fellow defense attorney Kerstin Sandels. He died in Stockholm in 2011.[1]
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