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Man found murdered in Oslo car boot

Police have launched a murder investigation after a man was found dead in the luggage compartment of a car in Oslo on Thursday evening.

Published: 27 April 2012 14:25 CEST

Man found murdered in Oslo car boot

Police inspector Hanne Kristin Rohde attends Friday's press conference (Photo: Morten Holm/Scanpix)

The owner of the vehicle, a man from Aurskog-Høland,has been reported missing.

”We don’t know the identity of the man who was found dead but we do have information we can work with. We hope to have an identity over the course of the day, or tomorrow at the latest,” said police inspector Hanne Kristin Rohde at a Friday press conference.

A police spokesman said the owner of the vehicle was reported missing on Thursday night.

”His wife contacted the police,” Einar Svendsen told newspaper Romerikes Blad.

The woman was not known to the police, Svendsen added.

Hanne Kristin Rohde said police had not yet ascertained how long the body had been in the car, or for how long the car had been parked at Sondrevegen in Montebello, western Oslo.

”We’re very interested in getting tips from members of the general public who may have seen something unusual in the area at any time over the last week. The fact that we’re going back a week is a bit of a shot in the dark since there’s much we don’t yet know,” said Rohde.

A post-mortem examination is expected to be carried out later on Friday or on Saturday, Rohde said.

The dead man’s body was found at 9.30pm on Thursday, three hours after a neighbour contacted the police to report a car that had been parked in a turning area.

Police continued to work at the scene all through the night.

”Personal injuries and finds made at the site led us to open a murder investigation,” said Rohde.

The car in which the body was found was a station wagon, police said, without revealing any further details.

One person living in the area said the car had been parked illegally in a turning area for several days, newspaper Dagbladet reports.

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Norwegian police charge Olympic champion's father for domestic violence

Jakob Ingebrigtsen and two of his brothers, Henrik and Filip, who are also athletes, shocked Norway last October when they accused their father of being violent.

“We grew up with a very aggressive and authoritarian father, who used physical violence and threats as part of his upbringing,” the brothers wrote in an op-ed for newspaper VG. “We still feel a sense of discomfort and fear that we have felt since childhood,” they added.

Police opened a probe into the abuse claims and on Monday said prosecutors had decided to charge Gjert Ingebrigtsen, 58, with domestic violence against one of his children.

According to a source close to the case, the acts in question do not concern the trio of known athletes but another, younger child.

Over a period of four years, from 2018 to 2022, Gjert Ingebrigtsen allegedly manhandled, insulted, threatened and hit the child in the face with his hand or with a towel.

Responding to questions from AFP, Therese Braut Vage, who led the investigation, would not confirm this account.

Police said they had closed investigations into other events concerning the six other children in the home either due to a lack of evidence or, in one case, because the statute of limitations having expired.

Gjert, who coached Jakob until after the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo — where Jakob won the gold — has always denied the accusations against him.

“As far as the dismissed cases, we agree that there is no evidence to prove that Ingebrigtsen committed any wrongdoing,” his lawyer John Christian Elden told AFP on Monday.

“For the rest, Ingebrigtsen disputes the description of the facts on which the indictment is based — and he therefore does not admit his guilt,” he continued in an email.

Jakob Ingebrigtsen is the most successful of the three brothers, twice winning gold in the world championships 5000m in 2022 and 2023, as well as the Olympic 1500m gold.

The 23-year-old is also preparing for the Olympic Games in Paris this summer.

Henrik, 33, and Filip, 31, were European champions in the 1500m in 2012 and 2016 respectively.

After breaking with his sons, Gjert Ingebrigtsen shocked Norwegian athletics by becoming the trainer of another runner, Narve Gilje Nordas.

The Norwegian Olympic Committee has said that Gjert will not be granted accreditation for the Olympic Games in Paris this summer, as was the case at last year’s World Athletics Championships.

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