On 1 September 2021, the man was arrested on holiday in Southern Norway. He was charged with the murder of Birgitte Tengs on Karmøy in 1995. In August this year, he was also charged with the murder of Tina Jørgensen in Stavanger in 2000. The 52-year-old man from Karmøy, who was arrested a year ago, is now charged in the case. The trial has been scheduled in advance and will begin on 31 October in the Haugaland district court in Haugesund. On Monday morning, defense attorney Stian Kristensen is in place in Åna prison, where his client will receive the decision from the Attorney General. Photo: Odin Omland / news Investigation completed this summer The police sent their recommendation to the state attorney on 29 August, and then finished their investigation into the Tengs case. The police have for several years carried out secret investigations of the accused. It may have involved wiretapping or infiltration of the environment the man was a part of. Police prosecutor Fredrik Martin Soma previously did not want to comment to news what the secret investigation was about or how big a part it was of the case against the man. The murder of Birgitte Tengs Birgitte Tengs (17) was found murdered near her home in Karmøy on 6 May 1995. Two years later, Tengs’ then 19-year-old cousin was convicted of the murder of his cousin. The cousin appealed and was acquitted the following year in the Court of Appeal, but he was also sentenced to pay compensation to Tengs’ parents in a civil case, where other evidentiary requirements apply. The claim for compensation was later waived, but the judgment stands. The murder is still unsolved. In 2003, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg sentenced the Norwegian state to pay compensation to the cousin because the compensation judgment went too far in assuming that the cousin was guilty. In 2015, new interest was created in the case both through a book publication and through VG’s podcast “Unsolved”. In January 2016, the Birgitte Tengs case became the first case taken up by the new cold case unit in Kripos. On Wednesday 1 September 2021, the police arrested a man in his 50s from Karmøy who was charged with the murder. Several million files The police have also used covert investigations in the investigation of the Jørgensen case. news has revealed that the police have 5.5 million files – images, audio, videos and documents – from the two years they conducted the extensive investigation into the man. Stian Kristensen is defending the accused man. Photo: Oystein Otterdal / news The defense then told news that the police had installed a hidden camera aimed at the man’s house and parking lot. – They monitored his phone and PC for some periods from 2019 until his arrest last September, Kristensen said. In addition, the man suspects that the police several times used undercover agents to get close to him by infiltrating the environment he was part of. The police would then not comment on the covert investigation or the evidence images before a possible trial. The murder of Tina Jørgensen On 24 September 2000, 20-year-old Tina Jørgensen disappeared without a trace after spending the evening on the town with her boyfriend. A large-scale search operation was carried out in the Stavanger area. On 26 October 2000, the body of Tina Jørgensen was found by chance in a drainage basin in the car park at Bore church in Jæren. The autopsy showed that she was beaten to death. On 31 October 2001, Tina’s boyfriend and occasional partner was charged with the murder of the 20-year-old. He was released after being in custody for seven weeks. *23. In December 2002, he was verbally informed that the police dropped the charge against him. The formal letter stating that the charge had been dropped did not come until April 2004. In February 2005, he received NOK 50,000 in restitution and NOK 138,500 in compensation for the financial loss he suffered as a result of the charge. The cases were dropped in 2003. *16. On September 2015, a 36-year-old man from Lyngdal was arrested and charged with murder or complicity in the murder of Tina Jørgensen. On 17 September 2015, three more men were arrested and charged in the case. On 9 October 2015, all four accused men were released. On 12 September 2016, the Attorney-General dropped the case against the four and justified the drop with “no criminal offence”. On 18 October 2016, the cold case unit in Kripos stated that they would look into the 16-year-old murder case. * On 23 September 2017, the book “When Tina was killed” was published. Author Erlend Frafjord writes, among other things, that the police in the investigation of the murder have been tipped off about a man who has been convicted of rape, and who has since been killed. On 26 April 2018, Kripos concluded that the case should be investigated further, but to a limited extent. 6 September 2018: Sørvest police district states that a group of investigators will look at the case again. The group has just started work. On 3 September 2021, the police state that a person is suspected of the murder of Tina Jørgensen.
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