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Norway woman found dead in car was murdered with knife: report

Police have seized a knife in connection with investigations into the murder of a woman who was found dead in a car in the Eidsvoll district on Tuesday.

Published: 9 August 2017 17:19 CEST
Norway woman found dead in car was murdered with knife: report
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The woman, who has not yet been officially identified, was an asylum seeker from Iran and resided at an asylum centre in the Toten district in Oppland County, reports NRK.

She was found on Tuesday morning in a car on the regional county road (fylkesvei) 33 in Eidsvoll.

The man charged with her murder is a 38-year-old Norwegian citizen who is also originally from Iran. He has no previous convictions, according to his lawyer.

The 38-year-old from Oslo, who was the woman's boyfriend, has admitted to causing her death, according to NRK’s report. He is charged with murder and due to appear in court to be remanded in custody on Wednesday.

The 38-year-old was questioned by police and admitted his connection to the woman’s death and crime scene on Tuesday, police said.

Police District Øst (East) wrote in a press release that their investigation has now given an idea of a likely sequence of events.

They also dismissed previous reports that a firearm had been involved in the incident.

“Out of consideration for the ongoing investigation, it is too early to go into further details at this time. We have no suspicions that there are additional culprits,” police prosecutor Andreas Christiansen told NRK.

An autopsy will be conducted as part of the investigation.

After receiving reports of a traffic accident at 5:55am on Tuesday, police found the woman dead upon arrival at the scene at 6:16am.

The 38-year-old was arrested and charged with murder shortly after.

“He is extremely upset, affected and sad. The woman who dies was his girlfriend,” the man’s lawyer Per Ove Marthinsen told NRK.

Marthinsen said that his client had informed him that an argument between the couple had developed into a scuffle while they were in the car.

“My client understands that he is the reason that the woman is no longer with us, but does not accept responsibility for intentional killing,” the lawyer added.

The 38-year-old was admitted to hospital for observation on Tuesday and is still under medical care.

“He has no previous convictions,” Marthinsen told NRK.

Police have encouraged anyone with who may have seen a silver-grey Ford Focus estate/station wagon car on county road 33 between 3am and 6am Tuesday morning to contact them.

READ ALSO: Norway man charged with murder after dead woman found in car

SPORT

Norwegian police charge Olympic champion’s father for domestic violence

Norwegian police said Monday that Gjert Ingebrigtsen, father and former coach of 1,500m Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen, had been charged with domestic violence against a family member.

Published: 29 April 2024 16:41 CEST
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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