Swedish newspapers don't name crime suspects

James Savage, a British journalist who works in Sweden, points to the fact that the Swedish media rarely name people accused of crimes in order to preserve the person's privacy. This is a journalistic convention, he writes, that leads to tortuous constructions, such as "the 33-year old man," being repeated throughout an article, which gets worse when a suspect celebrates a birthday between committing the alleged crime and coming to trial. Then papers report the accused as "the 33-year old, who was 32 when he committed the crime". How bizarre! (Via The Local - Sweden's news in English)