The verdict was served on the accused in Trøndelag district court this morning.
A unanimous court believes the defendant poisoned his wife with morphine and tried to poison her against her will, district court judge Eirik Lereim stated during the review of the sentence.
May Irene Eliassen (73) died on 29 June in Ørland municipality. A large overdose of morphine was found in her body.
The husband was charged with murder.
The court relied on testimony from the son and what he told the mother
The court believes that there are several factors that suggest that May Iren Eliassen did not wish to die and that she therefore did not take the tablets herself.
Judge Lereim referred to, among other things, this:
When the woman was in hospital in February and morphine was discovered in her body, she told her son that she had not taken the tablets.
The defendant told them he wanted to buy the morphine from, that the drug was for a friend who wanted to die.
When the defendant was arrested, he wondered what had happened to his wife and denied that he knew about the morphine.
A witness said in court that the defendant had said that he thought the sons of the deceased could have given her the morphine.
Lose the right of inheritance
The court has not found any motive for why the defendant killed his wife.
Judge Lereim says this was not a premeditated murder, but that the defendant may have done this because his wife was ill.
The court believes the defendant started planning the poisoning at the beginning of January 2023, when the wife went to rehab.
– May Irene was not close to dying, said judge Lereim. He referred to experts who believed that the victim could have lived for between five and ten more years with the disease.
The accused is also deprived of the right to inherit from his wife.
Defendant: – Didn’t want to know when the wife took the tablets
He has pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting suicide by buying the tablets.
But he confesses to having killed her. He has explained that it was his wife who wanted to die after receiving the diagnosis Parkinson’s plus i 2022.
He bought the tablets by agreement with his wife and gave them to her.
– I told her that I didn’t want to know when she took the tablets, he said in the trial.
The defendant said nothing about his wife being hospitalized with morphine poisoning in February when he called AMK just before 10pm on 29 June.
In February, she survived, but was in hospital for several days before she was allowed to return home.
Therefore, the man was also charged with attempted murder.
Published 08.04.2024, at 09.30 Updated 08.04.2024, at 09.57
2024-04-08 07:30:51
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