Christina’s father: – Hope the wait is almost over – Østlands-Posten

– It was well as we had expected and hoped for, says Roar Juel Johannessen to Østlands-Posten.

He has never given up hope that her daughter’s killer will be sentenced, and has worked diligently behind the scenes to find out what happened when her daughter came home from bathe in 1999.

the reason for Public Prosecutions petition is thus the discovery of the man’s DNA profile at Christina’s fingernails, and that DNA found supports the central witness observations made that day the murder took place, writes Director of Public Prosecutions.

Now consider Juel Johannessen burden as 100 percent, unlike the last time the matter was up.

– the time was evidence both partially diffuse and the case also incorrectly added up. Now we hope the evidence is stronger in a lawsuit, says Juel Johannessen.

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The wait has been long

He admits that the waiting time to get the case reopened has been long, and yet is not the family at an end. It is now up to the Criminal Cases Review Commission to decide on the matter finally be reopened.

– We hope for trial in the spring. But first there must be a suitable straight barley. Larvik is too small, and it is perhaps Tønsberg or Sandefjord better suited, he says and adds.

Murder Victim: Kristin Juel Johannessen was only 12 years old when she was killed on 5 August 1999.

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But we feel that we are in the latter waiting time in relation to the right practical conditions. we have waited for 16 years, so we must have the patience to wait a few months extra, says Juel Johannessen.

new analysis using new technology

the discovery was made after the seizure in the case was reviewed and analyzed again in 2015. DNA found supports the central witness observations made that day the murder took place, writes Director of Public Prosecutions.

A criminal case may be reopened if new information or evidence makes that “one must assume that he is guilty of the offense.”

new analytical results previously obtained evidence, accumulated as a result of improved analysis technique, considered as new evidence. Public Prosecutions assessment is that the conditions for reopening the case are met.

Will prioritize the matter

Facts about the murder of Kristin Juel Johannesen

• Kristin Juel Johannessen (12) from Hedrum Larvik disappeared 5. august 1999.
• She rode to bathe with a girlfriend in Goksjø water.
• She was last seen around the clock 18.40. When she did not show up as agreed, was initiated search.
• She was found dead at 23.30 on Reppe farm road on Dark in Hedrum.
• The autopsy report showed that she was strangled.
• a week after was a 54 year old man arrested and charged in the case. The charges were dropped a few months later, and the man got compensation.
• In May 2000, a 23-year-old man charged with the murder.
• In 2001 he was sentenced to twelve years in prison for murder . The following year he was acquitted, when a DNA test showed that hair found at the scene, did not stem from him.
• The same man is now detained again in the case.

It is now up to the Criminal Cases Review Commission to decide whether the case should reopened. The accused has maintained its earlier explanation that he did not have anything with the killing to do. If the case is reopened, it will be a new trial.

Public Prosecutions can not comment further on the issue of reopening, because it will be perceived as forhåndsprosedyre.- Such petitions being discussed is made very rarely by the Attorney General, printed in a press release.

the Commission for criminal cases has earlier this year stated that also the will give priority to the processing of the murder case of Larvik and that it will go ahead with other matters for review.

Can an indictment by a yes

it was in December that the public prosecutor in Vestfold and Telemark sent the case to the Public Prosecutions , after considering the murder case and setting of prosecutors in Vestfold.

prosecutors believed that there were grounds for reopening, which both prosecutor and Prosecutions now supported.

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If resumption Commission decides that the case be reopened, it will go back to the public prosecutor Vestfold and Telemark, who can then withdraw the charges and send the case to court.

Says he drove highway 40 to Larvik

39 -year-old denies culpability and has maintained the same explanation as the one he gave in the last round. The man denied having been around the scene of the Dark murder day 5. August 1999, arguing that he drove a different route from Siljan, where he had spent the night, and to Oslo, where he lived when the murder happened.

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police arrested the man again in July this year after it was found DNA from 39-year-old that ties him to killing action.

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