The case in summary • A man is charged with murder after a woman died following a fire in Porsgrunn in September 2022.• The police are investigating whether there is a connection between this case and a suspicious death in Porsgrunn this summer.• The man accused of murder has previously been convicted several times, including for drug and violent crime. The summary is made by an AI service from OpenAi. The content is quality assured by news’s journalists before publication. A man in his 30s has been arrested and charged with murder after a woman in her 20s died of burns after an incident in a home in Porsgrunn last September. At the same time, the police are investigating a suspicious death after a man was found dead in a home this summer, according to Varden. – We are seeing if there is a connection between these two cases, says police inspector Odd Skei Kostveit in the South-East police district to news. He says that they now see no other connection than that the man who died this summer has the status of a witness in the case, which is now being investigated as murder. He also says that the man charged with murder has the status of a witness in connection with the death this summer. – Then the investigation can further clarify whether there is any other link between these two cases. The man charged with murder has been questioned by the police. – He denies criminal guilt for murder, says Kostveit. He points out that the man was not charged in the case, which the police are investigating as a suspicious death. Convicted several times The man accused of murder has been convicted a number of times in the past, including for drug and violent crime. This shows judges news has had access to. The man charged with murder Photo: Privat In 2011, he was convicted of kicking in the door of a home, hitting a person who stayed in the home in the head and taking, among other things, two PCs and two mobile phones. In the same court round, he was convicted of violence against two other people, drink-driving, drunk driving, drug use and several violations of the Road Traffic Act. He had to serve 18 months in prison for these conditions. Convicted of violence against a partner In 2013, he was convicted of having exposed his former partner to violence over several years. He was also convicted of violence against her in the 2011 verdict. In 2019, he was convicted of violence against another former partner. In 2014, he was sentenced to six months in prison for violence and deprivation of liberty together with three other men. The victim was the same person who was subjected to the violent theft in 2011. INVESTIGATOR: A man has been arrested and charged with murder after a woman in her 20s died of burns following an incident in a home in Porsgrunn last September. Photo: Theo Aasland Valen Death from burns In the murder case which the police are now investigating, the police have previously stated that the woman was probably doused with flammable liquid and set on fire, according to NTB. The woman was treated for burns at Haukeland Hospital in Bergen, but died of her injuries three days later. According to Varden, three people must have been present during the incident in September last year. One was her roommate, who has been charged with murder. The other was the man in his 50s, who was found dead in a home in Porsgrunn this summer. Witness after woman died The man in his 50s was questioned as a witness after the woman died last year. Kostveit will not say what the man has said in questioning. – I cannot go into what witnesses have said in either of these two cases, says Kostveit. Varden also writes that the man, who is in his 50s, and the accused murderer lived together for periods of time. After the death, the police have stood guard outside the home, a neighbor tells news’s reporter at the scene. Some windows are sealed with police tape. news has not succeeded in getting in touch with the accused man’s defender Espen Refstie. Refstie told news on Monday that his client is having a hard time and has received serious accusations against him. Refstie also said his client was cooperating with police. Risk of repetition The man will be produced for remand on Wednesday. The police believe, among other things, that there is a risk of repetition. – The reason for that is that he has been charged with two recent incidents of violence this year. Women have been subjected to violence, says Kostveit. He will not comment on the kind of relationship he has with the women. Kostveit says Kripos is probably involved in the case in one way or another, but is unsure in what way. He says they will investigate both of these cases and re-examine witnesses. He asks people who have information about any of these cases to contact the police. Tip news’s crime group: Do you have information about this case or other crime cases? Contact news’s crime group. You can tip us off by e-mail or through news’s encrypted notification service. Here you can tip us anonymously. We also treat all tips confidentially, in line with the Vær varsom poster’s rules on source protection.
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