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Suspected murderer to be pall-bearer at funeral

A policeman now suspected of murdering a 33-year-old Norwegian woman was so close to the family that he was asked to carry her coffin at the funeral, TV 2 has reported.

Suspected murderer to be pall-bearer at funeral
CCTV footage of BrĂ¥then with the suspected killer - Police
Linn Madelen Bråthen is to be buried at 1pm on Friday afternoon at a church in the town of Stathelle, south of Oslo, after a week in which her family have succeded in convincing police to treat her death as murder. 
 
She died on August the 4th after falling from the Brevik suspension bridge near the town. 
 
Bråthen's friend, Tina Maabø Tellefsen, the first to realise that the policeman had been together with Bråthen on the night of her death, confirmed that he had also previously been one of six close friends asked to carry the coffin. 
 
"Yes, it was part of the plan," she told TV 2. 
 
Tellefsen last week found footage of the two leaving in the direction of the bridge while studying CCTV footage from the local shopping mall. Her discovery shattered the policeman's claims to have left Bråthen that night outside Strathelle Church. 
 
Police have since arrested the man, while the victim's family have dropped plans to include him in the funeral. 
 

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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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