Two men with links to a Swedish neo-Nazi group received lower sentences on Friday a Swedish Appeals Court ruled.

They received lower sentences after being cleared of involvement in a bomb blast in western Sweden targeting an asylum centre.

The evidence was insufficient to tie the two men aged 23 and 51 to a bomb placed in a dumpster at a refugee reception centre in Gothenburg in early January, the appeal court said.

A caretaker sustained serious leg injuries in the blast.

The Court of Appeal for Western Sweden in Gothenburg upheld convictions regarding their involvement in two other incidents.

The first was a November 2016 blast that damaged premises used by a leftist group in the west coast city of Gothenburg.

If any person had passed by the location at the time of the blast it could have been lethal, the prosecution said during the trial.

The duo was also found guilty of placing a device at a camping site used to house asylum seekers on the city’s outskirts.

The undetonated device was discovered at the end of January.

The 51-year-old’s initial five-year prison term was halved while the younger defendant was to serve a six-and-a-half-year term, which was two years shorter than the sentence handed down in July by a lower court.

A third defendant, aged 20, was to serve one year and 10 months as an accessory for the failed camping site bombing.

His sentence was extended four months.

The prosecutor said the trio had ties to the Nordic Resistance Movement but acted on their own, as they favoured a more violent stance than the leadership.

NAN