HAUGESUND (VG) South-West police will investigate the Birgitte Tengs-murder on the again together with Anders, who believes it is possible to clear the 21-year-old case.
In one year has Kripos’ special group for unsolved serious cases seen at the murder of Birgitte Tengs.
Cold Case-the band’s first case concludes: the Police should be implemented new investigation. It let the group forward at a press conference in Haugesund on Wednesday.
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South-West police confirmed at the press conference that they will follow the recommendation and investigate the case again together with Kripos.
– It has come a series of recommendations that make that I have decided that we will initiate the investigation with a new group to be based in Stavanger, said the chief of police His Inlet in the South-West police district.
Background: What happened with Birgitte Tengs?
Head of Kripos’ Cold Case group, Espen Erdal, say they have no suspect in the case.
– We recommend a new investigation, but can not wait for an imminent breakthrough. We do not have a DNA match or a suspect, ” says Erdal.
Cold Case-the group believes there were several possible actions that was not done when the case was investigated for the first time.
– We believe that the more etterforskningsskritt was not followed up at the time, and we believe that it should be done. In our view, case has the potential to be cleared, says politiadvokat Torbjørn Aasbø in the Cold Case group.
Working påtaleleder Trond Sekkingstad in the South-West police say they have received a number of tips in the case, including as late as in the year.
Analysis
the Work of the Cold Case has not passed in directly politietterforskning, but it’s more an analysis of the case documents, materials, and an assessment of whether the new technology can solve the case almost 20 years after.
There are, among other retained DNA material that they should try to test again. For around one year ago, the police in Haugesund this out, but it has not been analyzed in anticipation Kripos report. In addition, it is expected to carry out the new interrogation, VG enlightened.
– We have not undertaken a new investigation, or technical investigation, but has had several conversations with several key people in the case, says politioverbetjent Torbjørn Aasbø in the Cold Case group.
Had been on houses of worship
Birgitte Tengs (17) was killed in California in may 1995. She never came home after been on a ungdomsstilstelning on a meeting house. Instead, she was found dead in a thicket next to a gravel road close by where she lived.
the Investigation used early DNA-technology, but after this not yielded results after two years, caught the police the jevngamle cousin to Birgitte.
After a very long and many undocumented interrogation where it was used controversial techniques confessed to his cousin to have killed Birgitte.
He was sentenced in the district court, but in the appeal frikjente the jury him. He was nevertheless sentenced to pay a 100,000 kroner in compensation to Birgittes parents.
Three main challenges
the Police informs the press conference that there are three main challenges with the investigation related to the cousin, who was charged with and ” I in February 1997.
** Cousin got the full access to the case, making sure he could come up with many details.
** the Interrogations of him as her sights were not recorded continuously. It is impossible to know how the information came out in the questioning.
** feature of the interrogations, making it difficult to build further on the confessions, is a third challenge. Cousin refused for long to have committed the murder, but was asked to tell a hypothetical story about how he may have done it. After that he told the police that he was the killer.
– On the basis of this, we recommend that the confessions do not provide guidelines for the further investigation, ” says Tone Aase, politiadvokat in the Cold Case group in Kripos.
the Father of the cousin: Relieved
the Father of Birgitte Tengs’ cousin says himself incredibly relieved that the police now look away from the confessions of his son, came after 13 days of questioning.
the Case against my son has only been based on this in the confessions. Today says the police that the confessions no longer exists. So now I hope that we once and for all can be finished with the discussion around the confessions. My son must once and for all be cleared now, ” says the father of the NTB.
– Erstatningssaken we get not done anything with. The judgment is final and can not be taken up again by the Gjenopptakelseskommisjonen. The paradoxical and tragic in this is that erstatningsdommen will stand by the team when the perpetrator is caught and convicted, ” says the father.
– Lots of tracks to go after the
the Author of kriminaldokumentaren “Who killed Birgitte Tengs?” Bjørn Olav Jahr, who was present at the press conference on Wednesday, believes in, like with the police that there are grounds for a new investigation.
clearly There are lots of tracks to go after, he says to VG.
He also says that he thinks the police at the press conference went far in criticizing its own investigation.
– They could have gone even further to absolve cousin to Birgitte Tengs, he believes, however.
– In the material are many possible candidates who are not well enough checked out, ” says Jahr.
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