(Bergen Newspaper): The survivors asked for a total of NOK 500,000 in compensation, but received nothing.
The Gulating Court of Appeal has now refused to hear the family’s appeal.
Therefore, the judgment of the district court will stand from April this year.
Instead, they must pay the man’s legal costs of over NOK 780,000.
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– To clean
The court believed that there was less than a 50 percent chance that the woman died of suffocation. Heart rhythm disorders are more likely.
– This shows that he is innocent of the accusations made by the family of the deceased. He is relieved and sees the decision of the Court of Appeal as a clean sweep, says lawyer Reidar Steinsvik to BA.
In civil compensation cases, the requirements for proof are less stringent than in criminal cases.
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Salma‘s 55-year-old husband was charged with murder in 2018 because prosecutors believed he had strangled his wife in Åsane in April 2017.
There were several announcements. The wife had declared that she wanted a divorce. The man had gone to buy sleeping pills and a special poison, Barium azetate.
The life insurance was increased and the husband had applied for “How to get away with a murderer” the day before his wife was found dead in bed.
She had been complaining for a few days that the food tasted bitter and she was afraid that she was trying to be poisoned and that she wanted to go to the doctor.
However, the public prosecutor dropped the charges and dropped the case because several experts could not determine any specific cause of death, despite extensive investigations.
The 55-year-old man was arrested when police investigated his wife’s death in 2017. The case was later dropped. The photo shows crime scene technicians on the property.
Photo: EIRIK HAGESÄTER
“Regarding the cause of death, the court believes that the plaintiffs have not presented evidence that makes it clear that NN (the husband) strangled Salma,” said the unanimous decision.
The 55-year-old has previously said that he feels open to character assassination.
Salma’s sister, Ume, has continued the trial in the Hordaland District Court, which ended this spring. Here with lawyers Harald Grape (th) and Torbjørn Moldestad.
Photo: Olav Sundvor
The Court of Appeal says that the judgment of the district court was precise and finds unanimously that an appeal cannot proceed.
So far, BA has not been able to get a comment from the lawyer Harald Grape, who has represented the plaintiff.
2024-10-17 10:28:00
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