The case in summary
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- A man in his 30s is charged with murdering his brother in Nord-Odal. The father is shocked and horrified by the situation.
- The accused denies criminal guilt and his lawyer asks the police to investigate the case widely.
- The police have carried out an initial questioning and are planning a new one as soon as possible.
- The accused has a previous conviction from 2010 for a racially motivated fight. He was sentenced to community service and had to pay restitution and compensation.
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Late on Thursday evening, a man in his 40s was found dead in Nord-Odal in Innlandet. The brother is charged with the murder.
– The father thinks it cannot be possible for the brother to be charged. This is completely incomprehensible. At the same time, he is very horrified by the situation that has arisen, says aid lawyer John Arild Aasen.
According to the legal aid lawyer, the father describes the two brothers as the very best of friends.
– That is what makes it even more incomprehensible to father.
Aasen represents both mother and father, but has only spoken to the father when NRK spoke to him on Friday evening.
The police have started a murder investigation after a man was found dead at a cabin in Nord-Odal on Thursday evening.
Photo: Reidar Gregersen / NRK
Found dead Thursday evening
It was on Thursday evening that the emergency services received word that a person was badly injured at a cabin in Nord-Odal.
When they arrived at the scene, the man in his 40s was pronounced dead. The brother, a man in his 30s, alerted the emergency services himself.
The arrested man denies having shot his brother, and denies criminal guilt, according to his lawyer Petter Bonde.
– We request the police to investigate the matter widely.
The father is not aware of what the brothers did at the cabin, and according to the legal aid lawyer intends to be present at the prison meeting on Saturday.
More interrogations
An initial questioning of the accused has been taken, confirms police attorney Christine Lundstein on Friday afternoon.
She further says that there is a need for a new questioning, and that the police want to carry it out as soon as possible.
The police otherwise do not want to say anything about whether a weapon has been seized, how the man in his 40s died or whether they know of any underlying motive.
The deceased will be autopsied.
The police have made several seizures, but so far do not want to give details.
Photo: Reidar Gregersen / NRK
Has a previous conviction
In 2010, the accused man in his 30s was sentenced to 417 hours of community service in the Borgarting Court of Appeal.
The background was a racially motivated fight with another man at a petrol station in 2008.
He was here sentenced to pay a total of approximately NOK 70,000 in restitution and compensation.
TV 2 mentioned the verdict first.