The police write in a press release that they will ask for four weeks in custody for the man in his 70s who is charged with the murder of his sister of the same age in Hvittingfoss on Saturday. Police attorney Ann Iren Svane Matthiassen in the South-East police district. Photo: Maria Kommandantvold / news – The man was questioned today, and he is connected to the act, says police attorney Ann Iren Svane Mathiassen. She adds that issues of criminal guilt have not yet been raised in the interrogations. The police further write that the man will be remanded in custody on Sunday afternoon. – The police are asking for four weeks in custody, of which two of the weeks are with letter and visitor control, they write. – Has the accused said anything about motive? – He has given an explanation to the police, and which we perceive as a motive, but it is not something we want to say anything about, says Svane Matthiassen. – Why did it become office business and not a legal representation? – It is because the accused did not want to appear in court, and neither the accused nor the defense found it unthinkable that the court should decide the question. Was notified on Saturday morning It was a little after 1pm on Saturday that the police wrote on X that they had arrested and charged a person with murder following the discovery of a dead person in Hvittingfoss in Kongsberg. The lawyer on duty in the South-East police district, Ingrid Postvoll, said that the police are working on the scene to secure clues. – The police will question witnesses who may be able to tell the police something, but it may take a few hours, Postvoll said shortly before 2pm on Saturday. At 5 p.m., the police announced in a press release that a man in his 70s had been arrested and charged with murdering his sister in Hvittingfoss in Kongsberg on Saturday morning. The police were on the scene after the accused reported the incident shortly after 11 o’clock on Saturday. Photo: Eirik Leivestad Hall / news According to the press release, the report came in to the police at 11.17 a.m. about the incident. The police went to the residence of the deceased, where they arrested the man who is now charged with murder. – It was the accused themselves who called the police and notified them. The circumstances at the scene meant that we chose to charge a man with the murder of his sister, says duty lawyer in the South-East police district Mats Henriksen to news. Ketil Magnus Berg, who is the man’s defender, told news that he spoke with his client on Saturday afternoon. – He is to be assessed in a so-called preliminary examination later this evening to assess his state of health. I don’t want to go into how he reacts to the charge, Berg said.
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The accused is linked to the plot – news Oslo og Viken – Local news, TV and radio
