– The action was a premeditated murder committed under especially aggravating circumstances, concludes Sunnmøre District Court – and has sentenced the offender to a prison sentence of 19 years. The court has given him a sentence reduction of one year, after already in his first interrogation acknowledged action.
The 24 year old is also ordered to pay 460,000 dollars in damages to redress the murder victim’s survivors. Prosecutors had demanded 20 years in prison, including one year sentence reduction. But prosecutor, Attorney January Hoel, got court support of all significant matters in the case.
– The verdict is close to what I envisaged in my procedure. Beyond that I do not want to comment on the verdict. It is up to Riksdavokaten whether it should be appealed, said Hoel.
Part Trusted corpse after killing
The court finds that the killing of Sami Milhem (20) was a result of the 24- old had built up a strong aggression against the deceased as a result of contact between Milhem and the killings condemned then girlfriend and partner.
– There appears to defendant’s own testimony in court that he hated the deceased and that the thought of killing you have occurred to him, said the ruling.
The killing Hareid received great attention because of the almost beastly circumstances. Having applied the victim, 20-year-old Sami Milhem, 35 major and minor stab wounds, his body was partially dismembered. The purpose of this should have been carrying it away to bury it.
– I was in panic and would get rid of the corpse. I would bury it in the woods and thought it would be easier if I cut it up, explained 24-year-old during the trial in March.The defendant did not complete the plan. Instead he showered, changed clothes and went back to his own home – where he later in the day was arrested by police. First, a charged intentional murder, but later indictment sharpened tiil premeditated murder and sacrilege of the dead – something he was indicted for.
– I get sick of my own actions, he said in court.
Premeditated or intentional?
There has never been any doubt about the question of guilt in this case. 24-year-old acknowledged early killing Sami Milhem (20) in a residence on Bigset Hareid municipality in August last year. The question was whether the court would judge him for premeditated or intentional murder.
Prosecutors believed that killing was planned, and showed during the trial including the messages and phone calls just prior to the murder. 24-year-old announced a buddy on the phone that he “would kill” the 20-year-old Sami Milhem.– During the conversation, which lasted a total of about an hour, he said several times that he would “take him” and “kill him “. I tried repeatedly to dissuade him, told his buddy when he testified in Sunnmøre District Court in March.
Prosecutors received the support of the court. Sunnmøre District Court finds it proven beyond any reasonable doubt that the 24 year old in the time before and during the murder plot actually thought about and contemplated what he did. Overall, the court concluded that he planned murder plot and preparing this.
-Not intended to kill
Murder victim was asleep when the stabbing started and two other people were in or close by house when this happened. Police believe that one of these two witnessed the murder plot. They should have been intoxicated that night and morning and remembered very few details when they testified in court. Asked by the prosecutor whether he considered to help Sami Milhem, he answered the following:
– There was nothing I could do.
The now convicted 24-year-old claimed in court that it never was his original plan to kill Milhem when he visited the apartment. He would beat up 20-year-old, not kill. Defender Johnny Veum asked in his procedure that his client did not have to be judged by the indictment of premeditated murder, but manslaughter. This got the defender not acceptance for by the court.
-We take the judgment under advisement. Now we’ll go through it and consider what we should do, says lawyer Ida Dahlgren Hanssen, who represented defender Johnny Veum under verdict Monday.
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