Police attorney Ylva H. Kvikstad says in a press release that they chose to change the charge because the first charge was based on information the police had at the start of the investigation. – The fact that the charge was previously for grievous bodily harm resulting in death has had no practical significance for the investigative steps that have been taken, all the while one of the hypotheses we have been working with from the start is that the accused stabbed him, says Kvikstad. The man was flown to the hospital in Hammerfest with stab wounds after a violent incident where he later died, Torstein Pettersen, section leader for tactical investigation, told news last week. The deceased man in his 60s has now undergone an autopsy and the police are waiting for the forensic report. – What we can say is that the deceased has a stab wound in the stomach region. The right decision Anne Kroken is the assistance lawyer for the surviving son of the deceased 63-year-old. She says that the son has been informed that his father’s wife has now been charged with murder. – My view is that it is the right decision to change the charge. I have had a good dialogue with the police, we have had access to some of the documents and from what I have seen and read, this is completely correct. Kroken is satisfied that the police have already changed the charge. The police report that they are working to map the incident and the time before. – We have questioned a number of witnesses, acquaintances both from the time in Vardø and elsewhere in the country. Kvikstad says it is too early to say what the investigation has uncovered so far. – We are now in a phase where we are securing traces, interviewing witnesses, gathering information and analyses, which will then be compiled and seen in connection with the accused’s explanation and the findings made at the scene. Forensic technicians are examining the house and surroundings after the stabbing in Vardø last Friday. The couple lived periodically in the city, but belong in southern Norway. Photo: Hanne Wilhelms / news Previously convicted The woman now accused of murder has previously been convicted of attacking her husband with a knife. Before Christmas in 2022, she was sentenced to 90 days in prison after she gave him a deep cut on his upper arm with a kitchen knife. Then she explained in court that the man had grabbed her by the throat and thrown her against the wall. However, she was not told that the stabbing had been done in self-defence. If she was really afraid, it would have been easier and more natural to run away from the apartment than to get a kitchen knife, the district court ruled in the case just over a year ago. Defense attorney Jens Bernhard Herstad says the woman is clear that she has nothing to do with her husband’s death. Photo: Kristina Kalinina / news Defense attorney Jens Bernhard Herstad says that the woman was surprised by the change in the charges. – She takes that change very seriously. The woman still denies that she stabbed her husband a second time. – She maintains that she has nothing to do with his death, says Herstad. In the prison meeting last Sunday, she had a clear discharge of blood around her left eye. She was remanded in custody for four weeks, the first two with a letter and visiting ban. Hålogaland Court of Appeal has rejected the appeal against the detention and has maintained detention for four weeks with letter and visit control for two weeks.
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