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Police seek ‘red car’ as murder probe continues

Police investigating the killing on Sunday of a 4-year-old boy in Ljungby in central Sweden have said they are interested in learning more about a red car that was seen in the area.

Published: 21 October 2011 18:17 CEST
Police seek 'red car' as murder probe continues

During a press conference on Friday, Kronoberg County police spokesperson Robert Loeffel said investigators had already conducted 170 interviews in the five-day old murder investigation and that more than 30 tips had come in.

“That’s not many tips for such a serious crime,” he said, appealing to the public for more information about what happened.

“It’s critically important for us in our investigation.”

The 4-year-old boy was last seen around 5pm on Sunday from a playground near his home while playing with other children.

He was reported missing around 7.30pm and police launched an intensive search for the boy.

Around 10pm Sunday evening, two young people found the 4-year-old dead in a small wooded area not far from the playground.

According to Loeffel, the investigation is moving forward, but he refused to comment on whether or not police had singled out a suspect.

“We don’t want to answer that,” he told reporters.

On Friday, police said they were interested in a red car, possibly a Skoda, which was seen in the area when the boy was killed.

“We want to get in touch with the driver,” Loeffel told reporters, according to the Expressen newspaper.

Police continue to knock on doors in the area and according to Loeffel, around 40 officers are involved in the investigation.

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NORWAY

Body found in Oslo flat nine years after death

A man lay dead in his flat for nine years before being discovered in December, police in Oslo have said.

Published: 9 April 2021 11:20 CEST
Body found in Oslo flat nine years after death
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The man, who was in his sixties, had been married more than once and also had children, national broadcaster NRK reports.

His name has been kept anonymous. According to neighbours he liked to keep to himself and when they didn’t see him, they thought he had moved or been taken to assisted living.

“Based on the details we have, it is obviously a person who has chosen to have little contact with others,” Grethe Lien Metild, chief of Oslo Police District, told NRK.

His body was discovered when a caretaker for the building he was living in requested police open the apartment so he could carry out his work.

“We have thought it about a lot, my colleagues and people who have worked with this for many years. This is a special case, and it makes us ask questions about how it could happen,” Metild said.

Police believe the man died in April 2011, based on a carton of milk and a letter that were found in his apartment. An autopsy has shown he died of natural causes.

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His pension was suspended in 2018 when the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) could not get in touch with him, but his bills were still paid out of his bank account and suspended pension fund.

Arne Krokan, a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, said the man’s death would have unlikely gone unnoticed for so long if he had died 30 years ago.

“In a way, it is the price we have paid to get digital services,” he said to NRK.

Last year 27 people were found in Oslo, Asker or Bærum seven days or more after dying. The year before the number was 32 people. Of these, one was dead for almost seven months before being discovered.

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