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Sex toy purchase led to murder suspect’s arrest

The credit card of 77-year-old Else Johannesen, who was found strangled to death in her home, was used to purchase a sex toy. Just hours after getting the IP address from the online sexhop owner, police arrested a 15-year-old suspect.

Published: 4 August 2014 20:05 CEST
Sex toy purchase led to murder suspect's arrest
The crime scene in Lemvig. Photo: Brian Rasmussen/Polfoto
According to media reports, the 15-year-old male suspected of strangling 77-year-old Else Johannesen in her Lemvig home used his victim's credit card to purchase a sex toy.
 
Police allegedly used the purchase on the site sexshop.dk to track down the alleged assailant.
 
 
Sexshop.dk's owner, Michael Peter Hansen, told TV2 News that he was contacted by police on Monday morning after they traced a purchase made with Johannesen's credit card to the online sex shop. Hansen said he gave police the IP address associated with the purchase some two hours before police arrested the 15-year-old on Monday.
 
The 1,839 kroner purchase was for this female torso (NSFW link).
 
Police would neither confirm nor deny the new information.
 
Sexshop.dk owner Hansen said the experience left him with a weird feeling.
 
"It's very strange that after killing someone you would go online and buy a sex toy. We have experienced a lot of things, but this here…" he said to TV2.
 
The suspect is due to appear in court on Tuesday. 

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Danish government backs removing children from gang-connected families

Denmark’s government wants authorities to be able to move children out of families in which parents are gang members and is likely to formalise the measure in parliament.

Published: 9 April 2024 13:38 CEST
Danish government backs removing children from gang-connected families

The justice spokesperson with senior coalition partner the Social Democrats, Bjørn Brandenborg, told regional media TV2 Fyn that he wants authorities to have the power to remove children from their families in certain circumstances where the parents are gang members.

Brandenborg’s comments came on Monday, after Odense Municipality said it had spent 226 million kroner since 2009 on social services for eight specific families with gang connections.

“There is simply a need for us to give the authorities full backing and power to forcibly remove children early so we break the food chain and the children don’t become part of gang circles,” he said.

The measure will be voted on in parliament “within a few weeks”, he said.

An earlier agreement on anti-gang crime measures, which was announced by the government last November, includes provisions for measures of this nature, Brandenborg later confirmed to newswire Ritzau.

“Information [confirming] that close family members of a child or young person have been convicted for gang crime must be included as a significant and element in the municipality’s assessment” of whether an intervention is justified, the agreement states according to Ritzau.

The relevant part of November’s political agreement is expected to be voted on in parliament this month.

READ ALSO: Denmark cracks down on gang crime with extensive new agreement

Last year, Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard told political media Altinget that family relations to a gang member could be a parameter used by authorities when assessing whether a child should be forcibly removed from parents.

In the May 2023 interview, Hummelgaard called the measure a “hard and far-reaching measure”.

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