A hunter who accidentally shot a 75-year-old jogger he mistook for a deer used an electronic scope that recorded targets the weapon was aimed on, a court heard.
The 48-year-old man, whose name has not been released, told police he shot Olle Rosdahl by accident in the town of Klippan in southern Sweden.
But the authorities, who have released a video recorded by the gun's electronic sights, say it was obvious his target was a human being when he shot the jogger from a distance of 558ft in the pitch black in November 2018.
A log of previous targets downloaded into his phone shows he aimed at people's heads in the past, Helsingborg District Court heard.
Police found pictures that taken with his telescopic sight show that he previously aimed at people, according to Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet.
Thermal imaging videos showed the hunter aim at a human figure in the garden of the victim's house, prosecutors say
The court heard how one image showed how hunter aimed for Mr Rosdahl's house when there was the outline of a human figure in the garden.
An image shows how the hunter is aiming for the jogger's house when there was a man in the garden. In another picture he aimed the weapon at a human's head.
Both images were taken with his telescopic sight and saved in the phone along with images of other hunting trips.
Lawyer Johan Landen who represents the plaintiff told the court: 'The defendant seems to have the habit of aiming at people.'
As the video of the hunter's thermal night vision was played to the court, the defendant sobbed loudly, reports Aftonbladet.
Prosecutor Ola Lavie said the hunter did not react by going over to the 'deer' he believed he shot and instead left the area.
Mr Rosdahl was severely injured but managed to reach a neighbour a few hundred metres away, where he
