For 14 years ago was the 23-year-old from Valer brutally stabbed and killed in Oslo. Øyvind Bratlie Skaare has never ceased to think of his friend, and what happened with him.
– I hit Egil’s an evening we both randomly dropped in at the same pub in search of a place that sent the Leeds match. And from that day on we were good friends, ” says Øyvind Bratlie Skaare (51) from Oslo.
Friday of last week it was exactly 14 years since Egil Tostrup Bråten (23) were stabbed on the street outside the hybelin its in Nordahl Bruns gate in Oslo.
KILLED: Egil Tostrup Bråten was found dead and stabbed in Nordahl Bruns gate in Oslo.
Photo: Private
Police hovedteori has all the time been that the or the that killed Bråten wanted to rob him, and that the 23-year-old was a random victim.
the Case is gone through several times, without results. Until today, when police caught the 32-year-old Norwegian citizen. He is charged with murder or complicity to murder.
– We have never stopped talking about Egil
– I feel a tremendous relief. Although one should not take it for granted that you have got hold of the perpetrator, then reveals a hope that we finally get answers, ” says Skaare to the VG.
51-year-old is a active in the Norwegian your fan club to Leeds United, an environment that also Bråten was a part of in the years he lived in Oslo.
– We have never stopped talking about the Egil within the club. He is in no way forgotten, and often have I thought of him and what happened that night, ” says Skaare.
But exactly what happened with Bråten night to Monday 18. november 2002 has been a mystery.
23-year-old had been at the cinema with friends the night he was killed. A taxi driver so Bråten go against the dorm room just after half past one at night. Behind him came two men. Ten minutes later found a politipatrulje him on the street, badly injured by knife wounds. A half-hour later died Bråten at the hospital.
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TAKEN TO HOSPITAL: Egil Tostrup Bråten was immediately transported to the hospital after police found him in the street. He was declared dead half an hour later.
Photo: Benjamin Hill,, VG
– Now turning over everything up again
– Egil was a steady, reliable and honest guy with a tremendous sense of justice. He was no stranger to go-between whether he perceived something as unfair. I have always thought that one should not look away from that it is just this which may have led to his death, that he tried to stop a robbery, or the like, ” says Skaare.
CHARGED with: The 32-year-old man refuses straffskyld for the murder.
Photo:, Private
Skaare was to carry the coffin in Bråtens funeral for 14 years ago. In the last month, he was back in the cemetery along with Bråtens parents. To VG he says that he has talked with them Wednesday.
Bråtens the father of VG in 2015: – I have reconciled myself with the fact that this case is not cleared
– We have talked together and I think they dread a little to all medieoppmerksomheten. They have spent so long time to put this behind, and now turning over everything up again. I hope this doesn’t put them too far back again, ” says Skaare and add:
– I hope whatever that this is the end of a long and sad history.
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