(Dagbladet): Today started evidence around erstatning- and sentencing after Henning Hotvedt yesterday was found guilty by the jury in the Court of Appeal.
Hotvedt has constantly swore his innocence.
the family Juel Johannessen, the father Roar mother Anne and sister Linda, testifies today before the court about how much killing Kristin Juel Johannessen (12) on 5 august 1999, affected them like family and how much strain the murder and the time after has caused. The family believes that the long time that has passed, it must be aggravating.
– Everything worked well
Aid lawyers, by Nora Hallén and Astri Aas-Hansen, has laid down plea if both pecuniary damages and redress for the family.
– What was family life before the murder?
– Everything worked well until 5 August. We had two kids who were active in the sport, it was an incredible amount of drive, but that is the way to stay in the country. We were concerned that their children would have a good time and that they should be allowed to hold on with everything they wanted, within reason of course, says Roar Juel Johannessen in court.
He explains that he after killing day has managed to remain a full time job, although the time after the murder was extremely tough. He has not been receiving disability benefits since he suffered an injury in the military in 1990.
– when I applied to get rid of the piston as a disability pension, says Johannessen, who came into the job again.
– No offer
But Johannessen says that he and his family are not satisfied with relief efforts following the murder on August 5. Daughter Linda walked into a “shock trauma” days after the murder.
– The psychologist did not have time to come, because he had ill family. I called the ambulance, and when they arrived, they tried to get hold of the psychologist. But they were unable to get him to set up. I called the parish priest, he show up after 15-20 minutes. And then it was a quarter or twenty minutes before Linda was quieter again.
Johannessen also said his wife Anne have had it tough, and that he was urged to seek psychiatric help in the period after murder.
– You have to put aside Kristin and Kristin’s case, we’ll get you medicated and on their feet, said psychologists to me. But it was never necessary for me to lay aside the matter.
– So they had no treatment program for you? asks Hallén.
– No. They believed they could not treat me in any way, before I had put away the case.
Began to investigate
– How did it go into the family that the man in 2002 was acquitted? ask counsel Nora Hallén.
– There was a huge letdown. Family Our life was put on hold.
winter 2002-2003 he asked Kona former lawyer John Christian Elden if they could be given the dossier. Johannessen said he at that time was about to go on the walls.
– It had never been done before for a family before, said Elden to us. But in March we get the documents. I did not know what I went for. But God help me it was a lot of work, says Johannessen, who then tells of the subsequent years in which he and his wife Anne, together with neighbor and friend Elisabeth Stokke went up all investigative tracks.
Should take him
– What did you went to step for obtaining contract dossier? asks Hallén.
– We asked ourselves what the police had missed. Here it is something they have been joined by something, we thought. It was the main reason, says Johannessen, who also tells about the “obsession” he has had getting to solve the case.
– When we saw Kristin lying there in the chapel, so I stood beside her and said I’ll take the bastard who killed her, whatever the cost would. Kristin was a girl we trusted and who held what she promised. When should I also keep what I promised. We were coming in, but we were coming unite to target, says Johannessen.
Will fill a void
– How has the time of his arrest last year and until the trial now affected you? asks Hallén.
– When you get everything from 1999 up to full pitchers, Johannessen says, adding that the family now will fill a gap again.
– But there is a positive gap. He who sits over there, will atone for the damn action he has done. It does not give us Kristin back, but we have friends and family around us.
Hotvedt defender, Brynjar Meling, believes that the long time that has passed since the murder, must be extenuating for sentencing.
the High court took yesterday the petition for his mother would testify in closed session to follow. She would not be able to explain themselves with the press and audience present.
- Kristin Juel Johannessen (12) from Hedrum Larvik disappeared on 5 august 1999 when she rode to bathe with a friend in Goksjø.
- She was last seen around the clock 18.40. When she did not show up as agreed, was initiated search.
- She was found dead at 23.30 on Reppesgård road on Dark in Hedrum.
- The autopsy report showed that she was strangled.
- A week after was a 54 year old man arrested and charged. The charges were dropped a few months later, and the man received compensation.
- In May 2000, a 23-year-old man charged with the murder.
- In 2001 he was sentenced to twelve years in prison. In 2003, he was acquitted, when a DNA test showed that hairs from the crime scene was not from him.
- The same man (39) was in July 2015 arrested again and charged with manslaughter.
- The background to the indictment, according to police technical breakthrough in connection with the new DNA analysis.
- 17. March lit Criminal Cases Review Commission that the case is reopened. It is the first time that a murder case will be retried after an enforceable acquittal.
- The case Court of Appeal from 16 August to 7 September.
(NTB)
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