Sentenced to 13 years in prison for Kristin’s murder – NRK

A week ago renowned jury Henning Hotvedt guilty of murder, and today announced Judge Mette Trovik penalty.

Henning Hotvedt sentenced to prison for 13 years, which is equivalent to the prosecution’s allegation.

Hotvedt makes it clear that he will appeal the ruling. Defender Brynjar Meling says that he will appeal on procedural error to get the matter up again.

– She must have been very afraid

Judge Mette Trovik think there are a number of aggravating circumstances in the case.

– Kristin were deprived of life twelve years old. It is clear egregious that it is a child who was killed. The monstrous and frightening in murder plot becomes particularly pronounced when there is a child killed, said Trovik reasons given for the judgment.

– Kristin was assaulted before she was brought there she was killed. This sharpens the urgency of action. The attack must have made her very afraid. She died at a horrendous act. Hotvedt held pressed against the neck so hard and so long that she lost consciousness and died. In these situations, minutes long for the victim but also the perpetrator. It takes time before death occurs, sharpens the seriousness significantly, she said.

Kristin Juel Johannessen rode home by 18.30 o’clock on 5 August 1999 to take a swim in the evening along with her friend the summer evening, but never came home again.

the family ante impossible when Kristin had not met her friend as agreed by Goksjø water.

– Kristin was a child who always gave information as to where she was, and she held appointments. Using friends and acquaintances put family started search and rescue, and Kristin was then reported missing little by clock 21, says judge Trovik.

Judge whether aggravating circumstances

– the attack appears to be sexually motivated

She notes that a female witness testified that she drove past a cyclists Kristin at Kurud. This woman has said she found Kristin looked frightened.

sENTENCED: Henning Hotvedt is for the second time convicted of killed Kristin Juel Johannessen. He testified in court about their movements on the murder day.

Photo: Draws: Marco Vaglieri / NRK

Just after passing the witness a man who went by the wayside on the same side of the road that Kristin had cycled.

– the court of Appeal considers it undoubtedly that Hotvedt right after he had passed Kristin on the road by Kurud, sat on crossmopeden, followed her and passed her. At the garage was deserted, no people. Here he waited for her and assaulted her, said Trovik.

The referee browsing court grounds that Hotvedt then transported Kristin inward in the dense spruce forest, on a narrow path from the garage. Then he killed her, according to court.

– Hotvedt continued to keep pressure on Kristin’s neck even a few minutes after she had lost consciousness. It takes time before death occurs, sharpens the urgency of action considerably. It has increased the pain and fear of the victim and the perpetrator have at this proved that he stuck to his killing intent, says Trovik.

The referee shows that the coroner has found Hotvedt DNA at Christina’s nails and think it shows that Kristin vainly tried to defend against the killer.

When Kristin was found murdered, was swimming suit that she wore under your shirt and pirate pants, cut just above the crotch.

– the assault of Kristin’s adult motivated. But there is no proof of that Hotvedt were committing a sexual assault, we therefore assume that it did not happen, says Trovik.

KILLED 17 years after Kristin Juel Johannessen was strangled and killed, gunman convicted.

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sentenced for the second time

This is the second time Henning Hotvedt convicted of killing Kristin Juel Johannessen (12) Dark Larvik 5. august 1999.

after having been sentenced to twelve years in prison for the murder by the District court in December 2001, he was in February 2003 acquitted by the High court after the public prosecutor had dropped charges against him because of doubts related of a human hair that was found at the scene.

Hotvedt was awarded compensation from the State of half a million crowns and was a free man.

After a new and improved analysis techniques made sure the coroner last year found Hotvedt DNA at Christina’s nails, however, he was arrested again.

Now, 17 years after the murder, he is therefore sentenced again.

tIMELINE: the murder of Kristin Juel Johannessen in August 1999 has a long history with the Norwegian police and judiciary. This timeline covers the main events.

tIMELINE: the murder of Kristin Juel Johannessen in August 1999 has a long history with the Norwegian police and judiciary. This timeline covers the main events.

– Kristin has in vain tried to defend himself

the medical examiner who autopsied the twelve year old girl, have concluded that she died of suffocation.

They called it kverking – strangulation performed only using your hands around your neck.

– Kristin has in vain tried to defend against the killer. She was a defenseless person facing the adult man. This sharpens also seriousness, says Trovik.

official stressed that there is an aggravating factor in sentencing the perpetrator has not confessed.

The court, however, granted a certain penalty reduction for the long time that has passed since the murder was committed in 1999 and until a conviction.

Facts about the killing Kristin Juel Johannessen

• Kristin Juel Johannessen (12) from Hedrum Larvik disappeared on August 5, 1999. She was found dead just before midnight of the same day on Reppesgård road on dark in Hedrum.
• the autopsy report showed that she was strangled.
• A 54 year old man was arrested and charged, but the charges were dropped a few months later, and the man got compensation.
• In May 2000, a 23-year-old man charged with the murder. In 2001 he was sentenced to twelve years in prison for murder.
• In 2003, the man was acquitted, when a DNA test showed that hairs from the crime scene was not from him.
• The same man was in July 2015 was arrested again and charged with murder.
• the reason was technical breakthrough in connection with the new DNA analysis.
• 17. March this year stated Criminal Cases Review Commission that the case was reopened. It is the first time a murder case will be retried after an enforceable acquittal.
• The case went to Court of Appeal from 16 August.
• Thursday 1 September, the now 40 years old defendant guilty in the murder of Kristin.

Ga promise by Kristin coffin

Kristin Juel Johannessen was reported missing by family clock 21.15 on August 5 1999. Two hours later, after a large-scale search party where nearly the entire village attended, was the twelve year old was found dead, lying next to a path.

the family has with today’s verdict received a long-awaited sentence.

the battle for the culprits should be found and punished, started already when his father stood by the youngest daughter’s coffin.

– as we stood in the chapel, I gave Kristin a promise: I’ll take the bastard, cost what the cost. Kristin was a girl we could rely on, she always kept what she promised. When would God help me, I also keep what I promised her, the Roar Juel Johannessen said.

FIRST RETTSDAG: for over three weeks ago, Thursday 16 August, took Kristin Juel Johannessen family place in the Court of Appeal, right behind the man who was accused of have killed the twelve year old girl. It says Kristin’s sister Linda and father Roar in the courtroom the first court day.

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