– As of now, we have asked him the questions we want answers to, and we have no plans for new interrogations of him, says police inspector Unni Byberg Malmin. Police Inspector Unni Byberg Malmin. Photo: Odin Omland / news In June, the police questioned the man who in September last year was charged with the murder of Birgitte Tengs on Karmøy in 1995, several times. The last interrogation ended on Thursday last week, ie the last day in June. In June, the accused man also presented several demands for new investigative steps he thought the police should take. Most of these have been done by the police, according to Malmin. – There are still a few investigations left, but we assume that we will complete the investigation during the summer, she says. – Has said the important thing Malmin says the questions have been of a tactical nature. The accused man’s one defender, Stian Kristensen, specifies the investigative steps to deal with persons and dates. Stian Kristensen is one of the target man’s two defenders. He says his client is having a hard time because he is to blame for something he thinks he has not done, but that he is well taken care of in prison. Photo: Odin Omland / news – Questions related to who was the choir and who was with whom, but there are also some dates we want to clarify, he says. Kristensen says his client to the best of his ability has answered what the police want to ask him. – There are challenges in recalling 27 years. But he feels that he has been told what is important for him to be told to the police, says Kristensen. I think they will be finished in August – If we have more input, we can promote them and ask that it be done, even if the case is sent from the police to the public prosecutor, he says. Former employees have reported to the police that they would finish the investigation and send the case to the public prosecutor, who will issue a possible indictment, during June. That schedule did not work out. Nevertheless, Malmin will not say anything that indicates that the plan for a trial in October must be postponed. – We assume that a recommendation will go to the public prosecutor during August, she says. “Only” suspected for ten months When the man in his 50s was charged in the Tengs case, he was also suspected of having killed Tina Jørgensen in Stavanger in 2000. The man has been in custody for ten months. At that time, the police could have investigated until a charge, which is a stronger guilt than a suspicion. It has not happened. According to Malmin, there is no change in that aim’s status. The police are waiting for more interrogations in the Jørgensen case before they can complete the investigation here. – These are two very high priority cases with the police. It is important for us to do all the investigations we can to find out what has happened in both cases. We will continue to do so until we have reached the finish line, she says. Stian Kristensen says his client has not been questioned about Tina Jørgensen since last autumn. – According to what we have been told, there has been no further development in that case. So it stands where she stood at the arrest, he says.
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The police have finished interrogating Birgitte Tengs
