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Norwegian held over Thai ‘body parts’ find

A 50-year-old Norwegian man whose girlfriend disappeared without trace in 2009 was arrested in Thailand on Tuesday after police found a firearm and what they believed to be human remains during a massive raid on his home.

Thirty officers swooped on the Norwegian man’s seven-bedroom home in the west coast resort of Kata after relatives of his Thai former girlfriend expressed suspicions he may have been involved in her disappearance, local newspaper Phuket Wan reports.

On opening a plastic bin in the basement, police were assailed by an overpowering stench. A search led them to the decomposed matter that has now been sent to a forensic laboratory for DNA testing.

The man is being held at Chalong police station on illegal weapons charges after officers found a firearm and ammunition registered to his ex-girlfriend, who was 30 years old at the time of her disappearance. He has denied murdering the woman, Phuket Wan reports.

“He faces a preliminary charge for illegal possession of a firearm,” a local police spokesman told newspaper Dagbladet.

“We are conducting a murder investigation after finding remains in the house but we do not wish to draw any hasty conclusions.”

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Driver in Norway jailed after 25 speeding tickets in 19 days

A Frenchman who had been in Norway for just over a month has been handed a 21-day prison sentence for amassing 25 speeding tickets in 19 days.

Driver in Norway jailed after 25 speeding tickets in 19 days

The 23-year-old, who travelled to Norway in search of a job according to local media, was caught speeding 25 times between February 6 and 25.

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The worst infraction was on February 20, when he was caught at the wheel of a Kia driving 113 kilometres per hour (70 mph) in a zone with a speed limit of 70 km/h, according to a court ruling seen by AFP on Monday.

The man “represents a danger in traffic”, the Oslo district court said.

According to daily Aftenposten, most of his infractions were registered by fixed speed cameras, whose existence he was not aware of. The man had his sentence reduced by three days, from 24 to 21, due to his full confession.

But he will have to manage for a while without his driver’s licence, which the court suspended for a year.

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