Before the prosecution continued its questioning in the district court, the 52-year-old asked to speak. He started by saying that the questioning the day before had been tiring, and that he was tired today. Uninvited would apologize for previous incidents, e.g. a case in point in the late 1980s. – I know it happened, but I have no memories of it today. It has been wiped away more and more. I’m terribly sorry about that, and it’s embarrassing. I apologize for that, says the defendant. After an hour of questioning, the defendant had to ask for a break. – This is difficult to talk about, says the 52-year-old. PROSECUTOR: Thale Thomseth questions the defendant about violent cases he has been convicted of in the past. Photo: Marthe Synnøve Johannessen / news State Attorney Thale Thomseth went through the old criminal cases of the accused in chronological order. After several immorality cases, he was admitted for psychiatric observation. This ended with him assaulting his psychologist and strangling her with a cord.The prosecutor asks what would have happened if the cord had not smoked during the strangulation. – She could have suffocated. But I had no intention of strangling her, he says. Attacked woman with bicycle pump During the first day of questioning, the defendant was asked a number of questions about growing up in Karmøy and that he was often a driver for teenage girls in the local area. During the questioning on Thursday, prosecutor Thale Thomseth wanted to dig more into the old cases of violence the defendant has been convicted of. When the defendant was 15 years old, he attacked a woman with a bicycle pump. He says that he actually wanted revenge on a 14-year-old girl who had tormented him, but that he attacked the wrong person. “Unfortunately, it was a completely innocent woman,” says the defendant. – Do you remember what you did? – I hit her with a bicycle pump, says the 52-year-old. In court, he says that the motivation for the attack was revenge, while when he was questioned after his arrest in September last year, he answered that the motive was loneliness, the prosecutor points out. – I have had a thing for women’s shoes and women’s clothes for many years. It has been difficult for me and it has created difficulties for me, he says. Stole shoes from victim of violence The 52-year-old was dressed in black and calmly answered questions from the prosecutor during the questioning. The prosecutor went on to go through the previous violence and immorality cases against him. Two years after the incident of violence against the woman, he broke into her house dressed in women’s clothes. – I climbed into an open bedroom window and stole a leather skirt and a pair of pumps, says the defendant. – It was the same woman you had assaulted two years earlier? – I know that today, and have been made aware of it. If I knew in advance. I have been influenced by the documents in the case and what is true, says the defendant. He says he went around her house sneaking, but it’s hard to talk about it today. The defendant says it is embarrassing that he is interested in women’s shoes, and that this has caused him a lot of problems. The prosecutor reads from yet another interrogation in which the defendant explained in the 90s that he got sexual desires from looking at women’s shoes in a house, and that he masturbated while looking at them. – What is the reason you went to the same house? – It’s probably because I’ve seen shoes that I think are nice, replies the defendant. – Was worried The prosecutor also reads a judgment from 15 March 1991. The defendant had been with the neighbour, a woman, and masturbated on clothes. The defendant says he is terribly embarrassed and sorry about this incident and apologizes profusely. – It’s not something I can do anything about, he says. The prosecutor reads a letter from the municipal doctor in Karmøy from 1988, in which he asks for an appointment for deviant sexual behavior after he stole women’s clothes and shoes and threw them into the sea. – What scares me most about him is that he cannot realize that he has done something wrong. He looks at me in astonishment, says the report from the municipal doctor. The prosecutor says that the municipal doctor seems concerned in the letter and that he does not think prison is the right thing to do. The defendant has no comment on that. Among other things, the municipal doctor sees the incidents in the context of loneliness, poor awareness and confused sexuality. In the 1990s, the defendant had two meetings with a psychologist, but did not want further treatment. Assaults his psychologist He is later admitted for psychiatric observation. Here he goes for treatment with a psychologist whom he visits at home, after the treatment. The prosecutor asks the defendant what happened when he saw his psychologist. – I can’t remember it today, but I think I read in the interrogation that I had driven to Haugesund earlier in the day or in the evening, he says. The defendant says that he parked the moped and went up the stairs. There was a name on the door, but he doesn’t remember whether he knocked or just opened it. He says that he went further into the bedroom. He says it’s tough and embarrassing to talk about. – I wore a skirt and stockings under the denim trousers. Then I pulled off my pants and sat down and started fiddling with myself. He says that the psychologist appeared in the doorway, that she turns around, closes the door and goes out into the living room. The defendant says he panics and takes out a string in a pair of sweatpants lying on the bedroom floor. – I went out into the living room and asked her not to say anything. I wanted to scare her into not reporting. He says that he takes the cord around her neck, that she hits him in the face and that the cord breaks. The psychologist reviews the relationship. And the defendant is sentenced to security and a prison sentence in 1991. The prosecutor asks if the defendant has made any reflections about what would have happened if the psychologist had not hit him in the face. If the cord hadn’t broken? – In the worst case, it could have gone wrong, she could have suffocated. I did not intend to kill. Only to scare, he says. Four days after the murder of Birgitte Tengs, the psychologist tips the police about the defendant and tells about the episode five years earlier. Birgitte Tengs was found murdered on 6 May 1995. A 52-year-old man from Karmøy is now charged in the Tengs case, and the trial begins on Monday 7 November 2022.
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