The 42-year-old man who was accused of killing Sukanya Banglek (69) in Lier last year has been sentenced to ten and a half years in prison in the Borgarting Court of Appeal.
The verdict is in line with the claim from the prosecutor, State Attorney Vibeke Gjøslien.
The Court of Appeal agrees with the district court verdict from Buskerud district court in January this year, where he also stayed sentenced to ten and a half years in prison.
The 42-year-old man has admitted that it was he who carried out the violence that led to the death of Sukanya Banglek on the night of 8 January last year. But he has explained that he never intended to kill the 69-year-old.
Banglek was strangled and beaten, including with two training manuals. She suffered several broken ribs and died from her injuries. The 42-year-old himself contacted the police about the incident. The murdered woman was a Swedish citizen.
It has emerged in the interrogations that the perpetrator and the deceased knew each other.
In the district court, the man told that he met the woman at bingo a couple of years before she died, and a relationship arose between them, according to the defendant.
They also met at bingo the night before the incident took place. This evening, an argument about money is said to have arisen.
The 42-year-old’s defender, lawyer Jon Anders Hasle, has not yet commented on the verdict to VG.
They chose to appeal the verdict from the Buskerud district court earlier in January.
– The judgment will be appealed, both in terms of the assessment of evidence and the application of the law. He did not intend to kill the victim, Hasle said at the time.
2023-05-04 12:25:48
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