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Police follow leads after finding woman’s body

Police in Jutland were still working on Monday to identify the woman whose body was found in plastic sacks at a lay-by in the mid-Jutland town of Langå.

Published: 12 January 2015 09:21 CET
Police follow leads after finding woman’s body
Police were focusing on the woman's earrings in the search for clues about her identity. Photo: Østjyllands Politi/Scanpix
East Jutland Police said on Monday that they had received 100 tip-offs about the possible identity of a woman whose body was found off the side of a road on Saturday. 
 
“We are still missing the final breakthrough but it could be that it is hiding amongst the information we have received. We definitely have a lot to work further on,” East Jutland police spokesman Jesper Bøjgaard told BT on Monday.
 
The woman’s body was found in a black plastic sack at a lay-by just outside of Langå, between Aarhus and Randers. A passerby discovered the sack, which had been taped shut. When the person in question opened it, the body was found. 
 
An autopsy revealed that the woman had been murdered. With police unable to immediately identify the victim, they publicly released a photo of her body which can be viewed here (warning: graphic). 
 
She is described as being between 30 and 40 years old, 172cm tall, dark and curly hair and with a normal to “heavy” build. Police were focusing on two earrings she was wearing: one was a heart with a light stone while the other appeared to be a swan. 
 
Bøjgaard said that the majority of calls they have received have been about the woman’s possible identity. 
 
“The tip-offs go in numerous directions, but the majority are suggestions on who the woman might be. Apparently no one saw her being left at the lay-by,” he told BT. 

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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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