Two of the 12 killings occurred in Hordaland – NRK

The police have started murder investigation in 12 cases so far this year. There is one less than in the first half of 2015, when the figure ended as the lowest since police began keeping statistics in 1990.

According to the Police figures for the entire 2015 23 people were killed, compared with 29 the previous year. NCIS figures exist only in mid-January the following year.

NTB separate list shows that the police every few days in the first half, the twelve cases where it is taken out murder charges. None of the cases have more than one victim.

Two of these deaths occurred in small villages in Hordaland:

• The murder of Trude Brenna Aasen on Lysekloster in Os municipality.
• the murder of Mona Nordaas at Evanger in Voss municipality.

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must be seen over time

– I tend not to look at murder from year to year, it must be large societal changes to before changes in killing pattern. In stable countries like Norway, it becomes necessary to look at longer time images, says criminologist and murder researcher Vibeke Ottesen said.

She refers to 2013, when the Criminal Police registered 42 murder cases with 45 victims. It was numerically significantly higher than the year before, when 28 killings were investigated, and Ottesen believes the media helped create unnecessary concern among the general public.

– One should be careful in comparing year to year, warns murder researcher.

Murder in Norway in 2016

So far this year police have started investigation of twelve homicides in this country. In 2015 there were 23 intentional and premeditated murder, according to the Police statistics.

• 9. January: A woman in 40s dies of gunshot wounds in a home in Gran municipality in Oppland. The incident referred to first as an accidental shot, and her husband in their 50s charged with manslaughter. Later, the indictment intensified to murder.
• 13. February: A Somali man in his 30s being stabbed and injured in a residence in the center of Kongsberg. He dies in the hospital. Another man in his 30s, he too Somali citizen, is charged with murder.
• 26. Feb. 63-year-old Mahmoud Mohammadi – originally from Iran – is found murdered in an apartment on Hånes in Kristiansand. The wife and son are arrested and charged with murder or complicity in murder. They are later released, before his wife again arrested in the case.
• 4. March: A man in 50s found dead in an apartment in Oslo of and is declared dead at the scene. Two men of 49 and 56 years is charged with murder or complicity in this.
• 7. March: Terje Jensen (83) is found dead on Gulset in Skien. The 52-year-old son his is charged with murder.
• 23. March: A woman in the 50s is found dead in an apartment in Flisa Hedmark. Her husband of 45 years, charged with murder.
• 21. April: A 64 year old woman is found dead in a home in Lier in Buskerud. The 36-year-old son is arrested and charged with manslaughter. Later, the indictment intensified to premeditated murder.
• 24. April: Trude Brenna Aasen (38) is found dead on the hill in Os municipality in Hordaland. The 41-year-old estranged her husband is charged with murder.
• 29. April: A 34-year-old man is found murdered and partially fragmented in a suitcase at an apartment building on Ammerud in Oslo. Three men and one woman are arrested and charged with murder or complicity in murder. One of the men has admitted having carried out the murder.
• 15. May: A woman in her late 70s is found dead in a fire staircase in a block of Toyen in Oslo. A man in his 60s is charged with murder, while a man in their 50s are charged with murder or complicity in this.
• 14. June: A woman (35) being stabbed outdoors on Trosterud in Oslo and is declared dead at the scene. The 41-year-old her husband is in custody, charged with murder. The man is a Norwegian citizen, originally from Afghanistan. The murdered woman is a Russian citizen. The couple have three children together.
• 16. June: 58-year-old Mona Nordaas killed at Evanger in Voss. A 43 year old man, who lived with the woman, has been charged in the case.

SOURCE: NTB

close relationships

Kill in close relationships make up about half of the cases in Norway when one looks at century over time.

it is the same so far this year. Four of the twelve cases involved the police believe is partner homicide and two of murder cases are adult men charged with having killed his mother or father. In addition, one case where a tenant has admitted having killed the female his landlord at Evanger in Voss.

In the area we differ from countries like the US and UK, where the proportion of homicides where the perpetrator and the victim not is in a close relationship is significantly higher – which according Ottesen interrelated with generally low crime in Norway.

CLOSE RELATIONS: ex-husband is accused of killing Trude Brenna Aasen. Kill violence is the most common pattern in Norwegian murder cases.

Photo: Hommedal, Marit / NTB scanpix

ethnic background

In four of the twelve homicides so far they have accused – and victims – a different ethnic background than Norwegian.

– We know that marginalized groups, such as ethnicity, in any society is vulnerable to becoming perpetrators or victims, also when it comes to murder. They do not have the same network and opportunities, explaining homicide researcher Ottesen.

No unsolved

So far, none of the cases in 2016 progressed so far that the prosecution question is settled, but none of the cases is without suspects or accused. The last four years considers the police all the cases were solved.

– Kills figures in Norway are on their way down, because of access to medical care, but it also has something about how Norway is as a society. It is important to research the murder and see trends over time to identify which groups are vulnerable and how to prevent, says Vibeke Ottesen.