– It has been a long day, and the questioning has now been completed. The accused pleads guilty after being charged, says lawyer Frode Aabak in a message to NTB.
He says he cannot go into more detail about what the woman has explained in questioning.
– She is very affected and sorry for what has happened. She agrees to detention, says Aabak.
Arrested at home
It was just after midnight on the night of Sunday that a man in his 50s was found dead in his own home in Braskereidfoss in Våler municipality. The man was perceived as either very badly injured or dead. Attempts to save life were initiated without success, and the man was declared dead.
The deceased man’s partner was at the scene. She has since been granted witness status and has been questioned. What she has said, the police do not want to go into. It is not suspected that she was involved in the murder.
It was an acquaintance of the accused who notified the police about the incident. The police then visited the accused woman’s residence and arrested her there.
– It is information from a reporter about a possible perpetrator that led us to look up the residential address of the accused, says police attorney Vibeke Stolp Ekeland in the Innlandet police district to NTB.
Produced for custody
The accused woman, who is also in her 50s, became involved in the plot early on. She will be produced for remand on Monday, and the prosecution will request that the woman be jailed for four weeks with a ban on letters and visits, as well as isolation for two weeks.
The police confirm that there is a relationship between the deceased and the accused. Ekeland tells NTB that it is neither a partner relationship nor a family relationship, and calls the relationship an “acquaintance”.
What is the background to the incident is currently unclear. Before the questioning of the woman was carried out, the police stated that they do not know the motive for the murder.
– We need to question more people to find out where people have been at different times, says Klauseie.
An opinion on the cause of death
Police inspector Henning Klauseie says that the police have seized an object which they believe was used when the man was killed, but for the sake of the investigation he does not want to comment on this further.
The police have an idea of what the cause of death is, but Klauseie does not want to comment on it until the final autopsy report is ready this week.
The man’s relatives have been notified.