Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Prosecutions will reopen criminal proceedings against the man acquitted of Kristin’s murder – Dagbladet.no

The reason is the discovery of the 39-year old man’s DNA profile on Kristin Juel Johannessen fingernails, writes Director of Public Prosecutions said in a statement.

The discovery was made after the seizure in the case was reviewed and analyzed again in 2015.

Criminal Procedure Law stipulates that a criminal case could be reopened to the detriment of one who has previously been acquitted in the case if the result of “new information or evidence must be assumed that he is guilty of the offense.”

It is this law the Attorney General has been based on when they reopened the case in 1999.

Shall up for commission

Now the issue to the resumption Commission, before eventually moving on to the Court .

– The family is delighted that Prosecutions do this. They see this as an important step towards a final settlement, but also know that they have to wait for the resumption Commission. The family hopes that they prioritize this issue, says counsel Astri Aas-Hansen representing the family of Juel Johannessen.

The man sits currently in custody was in July last year arrested in connection with the unsolved murder of Kristin Juel Johannessen in August 1999.

In police spotlight

Since then, he has been in police spotlight for over fifteen years.

– I know I’m innocent and had hoped for an acquittal. No one can understand how it is to be sentenced for something you have not done, said 39-year-old told Dagbladet in 2002.
Already after his arrest in July last year said police background was DNA traces.

Kristin Juel Johannessen disappeared when she rode to bathe outside Larvik in 1999, and was found dead a few hours later.

In 2001, 39-year-old , then 23 years old, in Larvik District Court sentenced for the murder of 12 year old Kristin.

The first DNA report indicated then that a hair found on her left shoulder came from someone in his family.

But before the appeal was going up the high court, showed new samples that the hair came from a woman. From whom was unclear.


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