BERGEN (Dagbladet): Attorney and prosecutor Benedicte Hordnes says in his introduction that this case is special because of its history. She talks about the first investigation in 2011 and 2012 and the new investigation that was begun in 2014 after it was first dismissed as no criminal, but then resumed.
Monika Sviglinskaja was found dead by his mother when she came home from work on 14 november 2011.
– It was initially investigated suspected that Monika had taken her own life, her mother Kristina Sviglinskaja had killed her or if Donatas Lukosevicius had killed her, says Hordnes.
Donatas Lukosevicius came smiling into the courtroom with his lawyer Aasmund Sandland. Court administrator, judge Hakon Rastum, read out the severe indictment. Then took the court a break to resolve technical problems.
Black NO
Back in court asked the court administrator Hakon Rastum whether the defendant would plead guilty to some of the points he has been indicted.
– No, replied Donatas Rastum at all point of murder, theft and threats.
He is accused of having murdered eight year old Monika Sviglinskaja. Attorney Benedicte Hordnes believes he first broke into the apartment where Monika lived with her mother Kristina Sviglinskaja at Berge in Sund municipality.
In the indictment it says that he presumably has broken into by using ax. Inside the apartment, he said the prosecutors have linked a belt around the neck of the little girl and tightened before he hung her up in a doorknob. Monika was home from school that day and should have tried to call his mother several times before eight o’clock in the morning.
Donatas Lukosevicius is also accused of having stolen a mobile phone, necklaces, bracelets, earrings, rings and perfume. From June to October in 2011, he said the indictment have sent several threatening and harassing emails and messages to Kristina Sviglinskaja under the name “Martynas nesvarbu.” In these he should have tried to push her to pay 38,000 kroner.
– Would sell information
Wednesday 8 February 2012 he should have sent a message via Facebook from a computer in Siauliu in Lithuania. This time he wrote to Kristina Sviglinskaja that he had knowledge of who had killed her daughter, what was stolen in connection with the murder and that he would sell this information to her for 4000 litas.
Thursday 12 July 2012 he telephoned to Kristina Sviglinskaja from a phone box on the Bryggen. In the conversation that followed he should have stated that she did not know who he was, but he knew who had killed Monika Sviglinskaja.
Claims of recording
In the indictment also states that he during the period 11th to 19th September 2012 sent several emails to Kristina Sviglinskaja under false names. He should then have indicated that he had heard a tape recording of the murder of Sviglinskajas daughter where one could hear her daughter screaming, and that he could obtain admission to a larger amount of money from her.
It’s no surprise that Donatas Lukosevicius denies guilt . In an interview with Dagbladet magazine on April 16 this year, he described Monika as a wonderful girl who was alive and happy.
– How can I admit something I’ve never done? I look forward to the trial, I strongly believe that all facts surrounding this difficult issue would be arriving there, he said.
The prosecution reserves the right to discontinue alleging detention for Donatas Lukosevicius.
Looking against each other
Kristina Sviglinskaja has arrived courtroom in Nordhordland District court. She will testify in the case, but will also follow the proceedings together with her lawyer Stig Nilsen. He says that she is in good spirits and that she is optimistic about the implementation of the case. The court has arranged a board to prevent the defendant is visible during her testimony, but during the proceedings in general, the two former cohabitants look directly at each other.
– She feels that this is adequate shielding for her part. Kristina’s mother has also come to Bergen to be with her during the whole process, says lawyer Stig Nilsen.
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