150 killed by her partner – VG

Every year killed more than nine people in Norway of the person they once loved. 2016 could become a new gloomy years.

Last week Pimsiri Songngam (37) was killed by her husband in Kirkenes when she was about to move on shelter. He also killed her 12 year old son. Despite the fact that it is bestial – to kill his closest is a typical Norwegian murder.

KILLED: Petchngam Songngam (12) and Pimsiri Songngam (37) was shot by her Norwegian husband in Kirkenes .

Photo: Private

VG has undergone all killings in Norway since 2000 and investigated cases where the victim is killed by her partner or former partner.

Here you can read about all of the 150 people who have brutally been robbed life.

the survey shows that we have managed to limit other types of homicide, but fails to adequately protect those living with a violent partner.

• VG figures show that on average has been committed 9.6 partner homicide a year since 2000.
• While the total number of murders has decreased in Norway, does not share partner murder reduced accordingly. This year’s partner or ex-partner offerings in 39 per cent of all murders.
• It is most likely to be killed by the partner in Finnmark, at least in North Trøndelag.

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the shocking figures testify that partner homicide is still a serious social problem in Norway, even though the Government has implemented action plans to prevent domestic violence relationships, and despite the fact that the police in recent years have been required to use new tools to assess risk in domestic violence cases.

NCIS concerned

Behind the numbers in the gloomy statistics there are 150 people who are deprived of their future in the most brutal manner. There are over 140 children who have lost their mom or dad, and many have also lost both: one is killed, while the other is in prison for having committed the murder. The figures tell the parents who will never see their son or daughter again. About siblings who will never again meet his brother or sister.

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– Any murder is a murder too much. There has been a clear decline in murders in Norway in recent years, but when it comes to partner homicide, we located higher than countries we like to compare ourselves with, turn NCIS boss Ketil Haukaas fixed to VG.

WORRIED: NCIS boss Ketil Haukaas.

Photo Jan Petter Lynau VG

An international study from 2013 with figures from 169 countries concluded that partner homicide totals 13, 5 percent of all murders. In Norway, the proportion of 27 percent in the period from 2000 to the present day.

VG reviewing murder cases also show changes in who is behind the killings.

• 52 percent of the murders are performed by persons born in Norway, while 48 percent are committed by people born abroad. In 2007 for the first time a majority of immigrants among the perpetrators. This is a trend that has continued in recent years.

• 90 percent of victims of partner homicide are women. Men are only victims in one out of ten murders. Proportion of homicides where a woman is the perpetrator is growing.

• The majority of the killings were committed just before, during, or following a breakup.

• Knife is the most used murder weapon , both women and men are perpetrators and are used in respectively 47 and 41 percent of the killings.

• kill the perpetrator first performing partner homicide and then takes his own life, the last six years has been significantly reduced. In the period 2000-2007, this group accounted 30 percent of the killings. Last year it was only the case in one murder.

Immigrants overrepresented

In the early 2000s stood ethnic Norwegians behind the majority of partner homicide, but now committed near one of two murders of people of foreign origin. After that roughly 13 percent of the population today are immigrants, it means that they are greatly overrepresented.

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– We have in recent years seen that foreign citizens increasingly are behind and are victims of intimate partner homicide than ethnic Norwegian, says Haukaas.

He believes the reason for this is twofold.

On the one hand, there have been far more immigrants to Norway in recent years. In 2007, when VG did the first survey, six percent of the country’s population of immigrants. Today represents this percentage roughly 13 percent.

– Many of the immigrants bring with them strong trauma in luggage from home, says Haukaas.

Yet he also believes that the declining proportion of ethnic Norwegians who commit intimate partner murder can be written that we have succeeded in creating a less violent society.

– It is not just about changing attitudes in order to avoid people being killers, but we must also work to ensure that victims of domestic violence dare to report on how they have it. It is perhaps especially important when it comes to newly arrived foreigners. They may have a troubled relationship with the authorities in their home country, they may well not language and may not know who to contact, or they are afraid that going to the police will affect their asylum applications, says Haukaas.