– There is a special atmosphere when you are at the crime scene. It is a cruel act that has happened here. He found it tough. This is what defense lawyer Stian Kristensen says, after the accused 52-year-old and the rest of the court’s actors were at the crime scene at Gamle Sundvegen on inspection today. Today, parts of the pedestrian street in the center of Kopervik and Gamle Sundvegen, a few kilometers away, were blocked off. – You are affected by the atmosphere here, says Kristensen. – Did you ask any questions or comment on anything along the way? – The police were in charge, but we had a say along the way, says the defender. Here are the court actors in place on Gamle Sundvegen. The 52-year-old is standing at the back on the right against the vegetation on the right (he is slandered by news). Photo: Marthe Synnøve Johannessen / news Last sighting Birgitte Tengs was last seen in the pedestrian street in the city center around midnight on the night of 6 May 1995, before she was found killed early the next morning by a farmer at Gamle Sundvegen. Both the prosecutor’s office and the defense believe that today’s inspection is important for the disclosure of the case. The inspection began in the pedestrian street in Kopervik. – I think today has primarily been very useful for the members of the court. You get distances in place. The crime scene, and alternative walking and driving routes, says Kristensen. Stian Kristensen is the defense attorney for the man who is charged with the murder of Birgitte Tengs. Photo: Marthe Synnøve Johannessen / news In the center of Kopervik, Birgitte Tengs was released from a car a little before midnight this night. She had been to an event at Avaldsnes. Tengs was observed by several acquaintances as she walked back and forth in the street. In addition to the confirmed sightings, there were also several sightings of a girl who may have been Birgitte Tengs. In the mid-1990s, there were always a lot of people and life in the streets of the center of Kopervik on Friday and Saturday evenings. Birgitte Tengs arrived in the center of Kopervik just before midnight on Friday 5 May 1995. There she chatted with friends, and walked back and forth a bit in Hovedgata for approximately 15 minutes. 00:07 a police car with blue lights drove from the sheriff’s office and towards the center through Statsråd Vinjes gate. Eigil Fagerland and two friends who were driving the strip in Kopervik, got behind the police car when both cars approached Hovedgata. Fagerland looked around for a place to park and drove until the pavement in Hovedgata on the right, just after the intersection where the pedestrian street ends. At the car in front of him, Fagerland, and one of the passengers, saw a girl who looked like Birgitte Tengs. She spoke to the driver through the window or the door. Was this the killer who picked up Birgitte? Visualization: Anders Nøkling No witnesses are said to have seen Birgitte Tengs walking along any of the walking or driving routes from the center of Kopervik to Gamle Sundvegen that night. Therefore, it has been a central theory that she may have been driven to Gamle Sundvegen. Here, the court’s actors are in place in the center of Kopervik in connection with an inspection. The inspection is part of the trial that is now underway in Haugaland and Sunnhordland District Court, where a 52-year-old man is charged with the 27-year-old’s murder. Photo: Heiko Junge / POOL / NTB Åstedet Court’s actors were today driven to the same place where Birgitte Tengs was released, below the pedestrian street in Kopervik. They have gone up the same way as she did, and are at the place where the last observations were made. From here, the trip to the crime scene was by bus. Where Birgitte Tengs was found murdered over 10,000 days ago. A few hundred meters from the home in Kopervik. From the center of Kopervik, there are several routes the perpetrator could have taken to the crime scene on Gamle Sundvegen. Driving out Hovedgata and through Stølebuktvegen is the fastest. In Øygardsvegen, a loving couple was overtaken by a car at high speed at 00:15. They saw that it turned onto a shortcut that led to Gamle Sundvegen. From the entrance to Gamle Sundvegen to the scene of the crime, it is just over a kilometre. Birgitte Tengs was found murdered here the next morning. Visualization: Anders Nøkling – Ideally, this part of the inspection should have been around midnight. There is no light over here. It is getting dark, says Erik Lea, who is the legal aid lawyer for the parents of Birgitte Tengs. Erik Lea is legal aid for the parents of Birgitte Tengs. Photo: Marthe Synnøve Johannessen / news – It is hard to see where these dramatic events have taken place. Where Birgitte has been lying. It’s sad to see how close she was to getting home alive. The tapes on the road today were supposed to illustrate the tow tracks that were found on Gamle Sundvegen in May 1995. Photo: Marthe Synnøve Johannessen / news How did the police handle the crime scene? A central question in the trial is what happened exactly at this location 27 years ago. Another important question, until now, has been how the police handled the crime scene and the material collected from Birgitte Tengs. What really happened here on May 6, 1995? Photo: Heiko Junge / NTB DNA from the accused 52-year-old has been found on her tights. While the prosecution links this finding to the act of murder, the defenders have believed that it could be due to pollution and contamination. It was a farmer who found Birgitte Tengs when he was out driving a tractor at 09:00 on 6 May 1995. – I saw that it was Birgitte. It was absolutely awful, said the farmer in court last week. He was also highly critical of the police’s handling of the crime scene in the hours and days after the murder. One by one, the policemen, crime scene technicians and Kripos employees have explained in court what it was like at the crime scene during those hours and days in May 1995. The crime scene investigation in 1995. The defense have asked several questions about police officers and crime scene technicians who moved around the scene without apparently wearing protective gear. Photo: Hugo Bergsaker / VG Was the plastic that was placed around the crime scene, and on Birgitte Tengs, used? How many people touched her? Who was wearing protective gear? Who carried her away from the scene? How did it happen? – It’s about the fact that you didn’t have much knowledge of either contamination or other ways a crime scene can be contaminated in the way you have today. They didn’t think about contamination in 1995. That is what we think is the challenge, when you use new technology at a crime scene, which was secured in 1995, with a completely different discipline than what is required today, says Kristensen. The police at the scene in 1995. Photo: NTB The prosecutor’s office has also been open that the handling did not meet the standards we have today. – Firstly, we just have to say that those who did that job at the time, did it to the best of their ability. So we have been clear all along that crime scene discipline back then, the way in which traces were secured, was different then than it is now, says prosecutor Thale Thomseth. 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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