He pleaded guilty to contributing to her death by buying the tablets. The wife died on 29 June in Ørland municipality, aged 74. The autopsy showed that she had a fatal overdose of morphine in her body. The husband was arrested on 4 July and charged with murder. Later, he was also charged with attempted murder when it turned out that his wife had been admitted to hospital in February for the same. The wife asked for help to die, according to the defendant Seinare, today the defendant will start explaining himself in Trøndelag District Court. Before that, the prosecutor goes through part of the investigation and why the prosecution believes it is a case of murder. – This case is about what role the defendant played in the death of the deceased, said the prosecutor. The defendant, in his late 60s, has admitted that he procured painkilling tablets that were found in her body. That is why he pleaded guilty on Monday in the alternative in the murder charge, section 277, to having contributed to his wife’s suicide. The wife had Parkinson’s plus also called atypical parkinsonism. After she died, the defendant said that she was depressed and wanted to die. She asked him to get tablets, which he did on several occasions. But he denies having helped her take them. The prosecutor, First State Attorney Unni Sandøy, will explain in the court case what the deceased’s illness was like and how she lived with it. Several people who knew the deceased will testify about how she felt. The same must be done by health personnel and doctors who were in contact with her while she was alive. One of the foremost experts on Parkinson’s in Norway, senior physician and professor of neurology, Charalampos Tzoulis, will also testify. The police received a tip about drug purchases before the wife was admitted Recently, news was able to tell that the police received a tip that the defendant had contacted the drug community in Trondheim because he wanted to help a friend die. The tip came to the police at the beginning of January 2023, but was not registered. When the woman was admitted unconscious in February, the police therefore did not have information about the drug purchase for her husband. While the woman was in hospital in February, a family member made an audio recording with the woman. The woman was surprised to hear that morphine had been found in her body. – She wondered if someone was looking to kill her, police attorney Ole Andreas Aftret said later. The audio recording will be played in court where her two sons will also testify. They believe that the mother had come to terms with the disease and that she did not want to die. – It is difficult for the bereaved to be invited to a trial about something so serious and extensive. That’s what Vibeke Meland, solicitor for the two children and the father of the deceased, says. Photo: Hege Tøndel Jonli / news – The sons are happy that the case is now underway. – It is difficult to be offered something as serious and extensive as a case about the murder of their own mother. This is what legal aid lawyer Vibeke eland says to news. – But they have done it to the best of their ability based on the difficult situation they are in, says the legal aid lawyer. No evidence of a “death pact” The husband has no concrete evidence that the wife wanted to die and that she asked the husband for help. – She had made the choice she had made and did not want to get as sick as one can get from the disease, says defender Kristina Jørgensen to news. – It was unnatural for them to sit down and write a contract on it. It was an agreement between them. They had no intention of sharing this with anyone, says the defender. She, too, must bring several witnesses, such as from the deceased and the accused. Analysis of technical findings at the crime scene shows tiny traces of crushed morphine tablets. This is already known through documents from prison meetings. Kripos has analyzed the emergency call the defendant had with the AMK central when he found his wife lifeless. It will be played out in court next week. The conversation lasts for 20 minutes while the defendant tries to revive his wife after she suffered a cardiac arrest that led to death on 29 June. Kristina Jørgensen is one of the two defense attorneys for the accused. He bought the tablets, but had nothing more to do with the death, says Jørgensen. Photo: Kari Sørbø / news Murder or active euthanasia? It is the prosecution that must prove that this is a case of murder and not active euthanasia. The latter is also punishable in Norway. In the indictment from the Attorney General, section 276 on active euthanasia is also mentioned. It says that if the dead person has consented, the defendant can receive a lower sentence than eight years, which is the minimum sentence for murder. This will also be a topic for the prosecution. – Can someone be sentenced for active euthanasia instead of murder, when there is no evidence of an agreement between the parties? – One can. In the usual way, it is the prosecution that has to prove that there was no such agreement, says Sandøy to news. There are more than two weeks until the trial in Trøndelag district court.
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