Will not be exonerated of Public Prosecutions – NRK

Public Prosecutions treated 5. July 2016 complaints from both counsel to Monika’s mother and police attorney Isachsen. But none of the complaints were upheld.

Bureau decided to drop the case against Sidsel Isachsen after evidence after investigating the circumstances surrounding Monika case.

not gross negligence

Police inspector complained about the decision, as she thought the matter should have been dismissed as “nothing criminal liability was proven.”

Public Prosecutions believes Isachsen work in Monika- case was reprehensible, but said that she could not be accused of serious dereliction of duty. Partly because the investigation did not give her a good enough basis to make decisions on.

TESTIFIED : A large press turnout showed up when Sidsel Isachsen testified in the trial against the drapstiltalte in Monika case.

Photo: Simen Sundfjord Otterlei / NRK

– the Bureau’s investigation, however, had not been established fact in such a way that the case for her part could be dismissed as no criminal regarded as proven, it says press release from the Director of Public Prosecutions.

it was also assumed that the Hordaland police district’s handling of Monika affair must be seen as a continuous offense, which was finally settled by the writ which the Bureau gave police district .

Isachsen lawyer, Svein Holden, said his client will take the decision under advisement and is now looking ahead.

– How responsive your client on the decision?

– We note that the Public prosecutor also believes that there is no basis for criminal liability. But he does not share our view that the dismissal basis should be changed, says Holden.

Rejected complaint from Monika’s mother

Kristina Sviglingskajas aggrieved complaint to the Public Prosecutor acted that they felt more reprehensible conditions should have been included in the indictment that formed the basis for the writ the Hordaland police district.

They also believed that the writ should have covered her mother’s demands redress damages. In addition pointed counsel that there was no basis for personal criminal liability to the police inspector who prosecutors during the investigation of the death, and that two officers were committing crimes in connection with an interrogation of his mother in 2012.

Heller not this complaint brought forward.

– We take it into consideration that they have upheld the decision of the Bureau. They have at least considered the case in its entirety, says Sviglinskajas counsel, Stig Nilsen.

Public Prosecutions has also concluded that there was no basis for saying that the questioning of Monika’s mother in 2012 was hidden the truth, spoke deliberately false, or otherwise gross negligence in the service.

– It should be very much in order to punish police officers. There is a high threshold, and it should be, says Nilsen.

To take the matter further when Prosecutions have concluded, we can run a private prosecution.

– That we’re not going to do. My client’s focus now is the criminal case against Donatas Lukosevicius accused of the murder of Monika. The judgment was coming on July 25.