It is the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) that has carried out new analyzes of nine clippings from Birgitte Teng’s pantyhose. Forensic geneticist Arnoud Kal from NFI presents the results of the analyzes in the Gulating Court of Appeal on Wednesday. So far, Kal has passed four of the nine tests. Here, a match has been found that matches Vassbakk’s DNA profile in two of them. Arnoud Kal continues at 12.45, after lunch, with presenting findings from the other five samples. The Birgitte case Johny Vassbakk is accused of having killed Birgitte Tengs in Karmøy on the night of 6 May 1995. In the Haugaland and Sunnhordland District Court, Vassbakk was sentenced to 17 years in prison on 6 February. He has always denied criminal guilt. Currently, the appeal process is ongoing in the Gulating Court of Appeal in Stavanger. The case will end as planned with proceedings on 19 and 20 October. In the district court, Vassbakk was largely convicted on the basis that a y-chromosome was found in a blood stain on Birgitte’s tights, which the judges believed belonged to Vassbakk. Here there were hits on 29 markers, which is considered a secure identification. In the new analyses, there are hits on fewer markers, and therefore the analyzes have less evidentiary value, according to Arnoud Kal. Starting with 65 clippings, Vassbakk has always denied having anything to do with the murder. In the new analyses, the institute in the Netherlands has first cut out 65 pieces from Birgitte’s pantyhose, mostly from a part around the left thigh and knee. They then chose to proceed with nine of the clippings where there were indications that there was male DNA. – In these nine pieces, small amounts of male DNA were found, which only gave partial Y-chromosomal DNA profiles, Arnoud Kal said in the witness box. Comparison tests were carried out from Vassbakk, his two brothers, 39 other male mode candidates in the murder case, as well as four out of seven male employees at NFI. In order to be characterized as a “match”, the institute’s criterion was that at least two out of four repeated tests gave an identification. Expectation of contact Kal said that the institute selected analysis areas on the pantyhose based on expectations of where a perpetrator could have been in contact with Birgitte, for example when the person pulled down her pantyhose and panties. It was this spring, after the district court judgment against Vassbakk had been handed down, that more than 60 new samples from Birgitte Teng’s pantyhose were sent to the Forensic Medicine Institute in the Netherlands, NFI. The prosecution, which consists of police prosecutor Unni Byberg Malmin, left, and state prosecutors Thale Thomseth and Nina Grande, asked for more DNA analyzes after the district court verdict this spring. Photo: Gunnar Morsund / news Prosecutor Nina Grande was able to state in court that half of the extracts have now been used up in the new analyses. In consultation with the defenders, it has been decided not to send the rest of the extract to other institutes, but rather to store the rest. The hope is that one day in the future you can get even more out of the remaining samples. Some preliminary analyzes were presented in the prosecutor’s introductory speech three weeks ago. Incidentally, it was Arnoud Kal who demonstrated the rare mutation in Vassbakk’s Y-profile, a mutation which was by far a prerequisite for him being convicted in the district court. Without the mutation, there would have been a theoretical possibility that the Y-profile could have belonged to someone else in the paternal family than Vassbakk himself. news updates with reactions from the defenders during the first court break. The prosecution does not wish to make any comments until the court proceedings are finished this afternoon.
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