The case summarized A man is charged with murder after his girlfriend in her 50s was found dead in Drangedal. The police are working with three theories: that the death may be due to an accident, that the accused has killed her, or that it is a murder with an unknown perpetrator. The accused man has agreed to be remanded in custody until 7 November and will remain in complete isolation until further notice. The man denies criminal guilt and is willing to undergo new interrogations. The summary is made by an AI service from OpenAI. The content is quality assured by news’s journalists before publication. – We cannot put aside the accident hypothesis until we have finished checking it, says police inspector Odd Skei Kostveit to news on Sunday. Has three hypotheses He says the police are working with three different theories about what happened to the woman. Police inspector in the South-East police district, Odd Skei Kostveit, has charged the woman’s boyfriend with murder, but is also working with other theories. Photo: Theo Aasland Valen – One possibility is that the death is due to an accident. The other theory is that the accused killed her. We also cannot rule out that this is a murder with an unknown perpetrator, says Kostveit. The police inspector will not say anything about the cause of death or whether the police have seized weapons. Telemark district court has assessed the evidence against the 47-year-old man and believes there is good reason to suspect him of murder. He has agreed to be held in custody until 7 November and until further notice is in complete isolation with a ban on reading the news, receiving letters or visitors. The 47-year-old’s defender says that the man accepted the imprisonment so that the police will have the opportunity to check what he has explained in questioning. Enhanced charges It was the 47-year-old who reported that the woman was lying dead in a forest in Drangedal on Saturday 19 October. He was first questioned as a witness before, in the next questioning, he was charged with having been violent towards the woman the day before she was found dead. After the police received the preliminary autopsy report, the charge was changed to murder. Willing to be questioned – I appreciate that the prosecution is working with several theories, says the man’s defender, lawyer Tollef Skobba. The 47-year-old’s defender, lawyer Tollef Skobba at the Hasle law firm, says the man denies guilt, but that he is willing to undergo new interrogations. Photo: Philip Hofgaard / news – He has explained what he believes to be a sequence of events, Skobba tells news. He says the accused has explained himself to the police twice and that he is willing to undergo new police interviews. The 47-year-old has not spoken to the police after he was charged with murder, but the police hope to be able to question the man during the coming week. Published 27.10.2024, at 18.13
ttn-69
Does not rule out that murder could be an accident – news Vestfold and Telemark – Local news, TV and radio
