In the 14 years småbarnsfaren carried on a cruel secret. He knew who killed Egil Tostrup Bråten in 2002.
the Murder of Egil Tostrup Bråten (23) from Valer in Norway has been among the most talked about unsolved drapssakene in Norway. Time and time again through the 14 years has the killing been resumed by the police and the media. Despite attention and the two unknown boys, who were seen at the scene of a taxi driver, never signed up.
the 32-year-old, who lived with his wife and daughter in an apartment at Ammerud in Oslo, knew what happened, but have carried on the secret until Thursday night this week.
One day after he apprehended, he laid the cards on the table. He contacted the defender Vidar Lind Iversen and said he wanted a new interrogation. Then he told a completely different story than in the past. Småbarnsfaren acknowledged that he was present when the Bråten was stabbed.
Background: Norway’s unsolved murder
– It was a tough and demanding interrogation for the defendant. He has expressed sympathy with the relatives and it has been difficult for him to carry on this for 14 years, told politiinspektør Grete Lien Metlid Thursday.
Ransdømt
last summer was the 32-year-old father of a daughter. He is a Norwegian citizen with a foreign background and have grown up on the Romsås in Oslo. In youth he was convicted for the so-called barneran, where he, together with others, stole mobile phones, money and other valuables from peers.
KILLED: Egil Tostrup Bråten was stabbed on the way back to the dorm room in Oslo.
Photo: Private
A month before Egil Tostrup Bråten was killed in 2002 performed the charged man a robbery along with three others where it was threatened with a knife. When he was 18 years old.
When he was 22 years old, he got the job in the shop and eventually became the assistant store manager. Without that it was known to family and friends, he has for several years been on the police list of candidates who may have carried out the murder of Bråten. At one point three years ago, took the police in the use of the most unorthodox and costly instruments they have in the toolbox: the Undercover agents.
the Undercover operation was terminated after some time when you lost faith that it would succeed.
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Refuse straffskyld
At the same time were 32-year-old questioned in drapssaken with status as witness, but he told then that he was in Nordahl Bruns gate when Bråten was stabbed. Also several friends of 32-year-old from his youth has been in questioning with the police and submitted DNA.
Even though the 32-year-old linked up to the incident in the interrogation on Thursday night, refuses he straffskyld for murder.
a Short time after the interrogation was concluded caught the police a 30 year old man who grew up 300 meters from the first charged on the Romsås in he lived for. He also is charged with murder or complicity to murder on Bråten.
It is not known how he compares to the indictment. It was planned interrogation of the persons charged 30-year-old Friday, but it was not to be.
Would not allow himself to interrogate
– He has not wanted to explain himself today. It is not clear to us why he doesn’t want it. He says he will do it at a time, but has not specified when, say politiadvokat Andreas Beach by the Oslo police.
DEFENDER: Lawyer Vegard Aaløkken. PHOTO: CORNELIUS POPPE / NTB SCANPIX
the Man’s defence lawyer Vegard Aaløkken, will not comment on what that is the reason that the man will not allow himself to interrogate.
– I know something about, but I can’t answer questions around it, ” says Aaløkken, who assume that the interrogation will happen in the next week.
Beach says that the police do not consider it likely that more will be apprehended in the case.
– We will in no way exclude it, but we keep it not as likely, ” says Beach.
He did not want to comment on what led to the first arrest or whether the police have had suspicion against 30-year-old former.
Dreamed about the OLYMPICS
the 30-year-old was considered one of the greatest talents within his discipline when he was 12 years of age. Four years later, however, he in a criminal environment. Like with the first pågrepne in the case, he was convicted for barneran and violence in youth.
INDICTED 2: A 30-year-old man, arrested in Oslo on Thursday evening.
Three days after that Egil Tostrup Bråten was killed, met idrettstalentet in the court where he was sentenced for the violence he committed as a 15-year-old. He threw a sennepsflaske against another man on Narvesen. The tip of the bottle broke and was left standing in the temple to the person.
A representative from the child welfare testified in the trial. He described the defendant as a “kind and easy boy.” In addition to voldsepisoden he was convicted for having carried a softgun facilities and a pocket knife in Vaterlandsparken. The punishment was set to 120 days conditional imprisonment.
He got his last judgment in the fall of 2003 when he was convicted of violence and contributions to the stabbing. In the 13 years he lived a normal life without being taken for a new crime. He took up again idrettskarrieren, participated in the NM and dreamed of competing in the OLYMPICS for Norway.
I remember that he was very good when he was small. He was a kjempetalent, but quit early, ” says a former OLYMPIC participant at VG.
The last seven years it has drapssiktede 30-year-old worked as a domestic help. Three years ago he began to study medicine.
He is a completely normal boy. He is not at all the type to do something like that. I have zero faith that this is true. If he had done something like that in his youth, so he would have told it to me, ” says a close friend of the 30-year-old to VG.
They met a few years after that Egil Tostrup Bråten was killed.
Breakthrough
the 30-year-old was brought varetektsfengsling Saturday. He has accepted the varetektsfengsling in four weeks with letters and restraining orders.
He did not acknowledge straffskyld, says defender Vegard Aaløkken to VG.
32-year-old who was arrested Wednesday, was on Friday, ” I in four weeks, the Oslo district court.
– the Police are experiencing the latter-day events as a breakthrough in the case, but there remains still investigation, ” says Beach.
the Family of Egil Tostrup Bråten hope now that they can finally get answers on what happened with his son.
– Now have an opportunity for the family a legitimate hope that the matter can be cleared up, but it has been many years of investigation, as the family dare not conclude yet. They still feel a certain insecurity when it comes to the investigation of the case, ” says lawyer Anne Kristine Bohinen.
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
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