No sooner had the verdicts been handed down at the end of Sweden's sensational Knutby trial in early August than the talk of appeals began.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - A bizarre murder case involving a Pentecostal pastor convicted of manipulating his former nanny to shoot his wife will go another round in court as both prosecutors and defence lawyers appealed the initial ruling.

In the absence of much real news this week, the tabloid editors found Knutby appealing.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - The lawyer for a pastor convicted of manipulating his former nanny into murdering his wife said Monday he would appeal the life sentence a court handed down last week.

Stockholm - A Swedish Lutheran pastor who faked cellphone text messages from God to get his nanny-lover to murder his wife and try to kill the husband of a second mistress, was sentenced to life in jail on Friday.

The shadowy underside of small-town Sweden will be exposed to public gaze this week in an extraordinary murder trial involving a nanny and an adulterous minister.

Stockholm - A Pentecostal pastor was on Wednesday charged with murder in a highly publicised case, involving several leading members of the congregation.

Having formally brought charges against a pastor and his children's nanny last week, Uppsala police - and the tabloid press - have been working overtime to get to the bottom of the Knutby murders.

The saga that has gripped Sweden since January hit the headlines again this week as murder charges were formally brought against two of the three suspects in one of the most sensational criminal cases in living memory. But "the pastor and the nanny" are just the lead characters in a story that would have had Agatha Christie wondering why she didn't think of it first.