On Friday, the Gulating Court of Appeal processed the appeal of the two accused after the murder in Haugesund on the night of 1 January. The rulings reveal a number of new details about the course of events.
According to court documents, it was a conflict over fireworks that triggered the stabbing that ended with Kjetil Andre Østhus (28) dying. A 20-year-old British man and a 23-year-old Norwegian man are charged with the murder.
– The conflict was that the accused and NN (the British man) did not want the aggrieved and his group of friends to fire ground fireworks near the accused’s car, it is stated in the ruling for the Norwegian, where it further states:
– Either NN or the accused tore a battery of fireworks out of the hands of one of the victim’s friends and threw the battery on the grass behind a car. When the victim went to get the battery, the accused and NN went after him and close up in him both. Immediately after this, the offended were stabbed.
Haugesund 20220102. Flowers and candles are displayed at the scene. Photo: Jan Kåre Ness / NTB
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Had several knives
It was NRK who first mentioned the Court of Appeal’s decision to reject the appeals of both the accused in the case.
The ruling from today’s prison meeting also states that the accused Briton had several knives with him which he showed during the conflict prior to the murder.
The 20-year-old himself has denied that he was present when Østhus was killed in the parking lot. The 23-year-old Norwegian has also denied criminal guilt.
