The case in summary A 19-year-old is charged with the murder of Oliver Ravn Rønning in Porsgrunn in November last year. She claims the murder happened in an emergency. Experts in the trial, psychologist Susanne Norby Johansen and psychiatrist Ove Westgård, have concluded that the defendant has a dyssocial personality disorder and scores high for psychopathy. The experts believe that the defendant shows little empathy and no signs of remorse or guilt for what has happened. The defendant disagrees with parts of the diagnosis from the experts. Her defender, Heidi Ysen, says that the diagnosis will only matter if she is convicted and there is a question of custody. The summary is made by an AI service from OpenAi. The content is quality assured by news’s journalists before publication. Oliver Ravn Rønning from Arendal was beaten to death by his spouse in an apartment at Hovenga in Porsgrunn on 27 November last year. The trial continues until and including Wednesday this week. A central question in the case is whether the accused should be sentenced to custody, which the prosecution has announced they will request. The 19-year-old himself claims that the murder happened out of necessity. This is the case: Photo: Stig Bolme / news On the night of 27 November, Oliver Ravn Rønning (22) was beaten to death with a bat by his girlfriend in an apartment on Hovenga in Porsgrunn. Only a few days earlier the couple had rented and moved into the apartment. The murder victim was born a woman, but saw herself as a man. The accused spouse is legally a man but wishes to be referred to as a woman. A now 19-year-old woman has been charged with the murder. She was 18 years old when the incident took place. Rønning’s mother witnessed parts of her son’s murder as she waited outside the couple’s apartment. The two visited the emergency room in Porsgrunn the evening before the murder occurred, in connection with an episode of violence between the two. The defendant then called the police, but they did not intervene. The deceased’s survivors believe the murder could have been prevented if they had come to the scene. The special unit is now investigating whether the police could have acted differently. The trial started on Monday 17 June. The prosecution has announced that they will ask for a custodial sentence, while defender Heidi Ysen is asking for a full acquittal. You can read more about developments in the investigation here. Examined a number of times Psychologist Susanne Norby Johansen and psychiatrist Ove Westgård are the two court-appointed experts in the case, which has been going on in the Telemark district court since last Monday. They have examined the defendants separately ahead of the trial, and have also been present on all days. The experts have also had the opportunity to ask both defendants and witnesses questions during the case. They conclude, among other things, that the defendant has a dyssocial personality disorder. – The defendant scores high for psychopathy, says Westgård, who, like his colleague, experiences the defendant as emotionally cold in relation to what has happened. This is detention Detention can be imposed on dangerous sane offenders when an ordinary time-limited prison sentence is not considered sufficient to protect society. A sentence of detention presupposes that a serious crime has been committed. The offender must have committed or attempted to commit a serious crime of violence, sexual crime, deprivation of liberty, arson or another crime that violates the life, health or freedom of others. There must also be an imminent danger that he or she will commit such a serious crime again. Source: Correctional Service – Crying for herself In court, defender Heidi Ysen asked how they explained this with the 19-year-old’s reaction in an interrogation. The trial takes place in the Telemark district court’s premises in Skien. Photo: Nils Fridtjof Skumsvoll / news – In the first interrogation, she cries a lot. You have seen the recording. How does that relate to the fact that you think she is not emotionally affected? asks Ysen. – She only cries to herself. Psychopaths can cry intensely and a lot, but in 99 percent of cases it is related to their own person and not what they feel in relation to others. That is what I think I see in the interrogations, Johansen replies. She met the defendant just days after the murder had been committed. The psychologist found that the 19-year-old showed no signs of remorse or guilt for what had happened, had a lack of insight into emotions and low empathy. Disagree with parts of the diagnosis The murder victim was born a woman, but saw herself as a man. The accused spouse is legally a man but wishes to be referred to as a woman. The defendant disagrees with parts of the diagnosis from the experts, says defender Heidi Ysen to news. Heidi Ysen, defense attorney for the accused 19-year-old. Photo: Nils Fridtjof Skumsvoll / news – She believes that she is not as ill as the experts believe. – How important is this diagnosis to the case? – It only matters if she is convicted, and there will be a question of custody, says Ysen. The prosecutor, State Attorney Helene Holtvedt, is sparing with comments before the proceedings which are held next Wednesday. – This report is part of the assessment we will decide on, she says to news. Published 24.06.2024, at 19.52 Updated 24.06.2024, at 20.11
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