It was in December 2015 that the multimillionaire and gallery owner was kidnapped and robbed by three men outside his gallery in Bergen.
In February of the same year, ten months earlier, Petter Slengesol was brutally assaulted at Nesttun in Bergen.
Only in August 2019 did the breakthrough in the case come, then police arrested a Polish man in his 30s. It was a DNA match, and that the police saw the two assaults in context, as led to the breakthrough in the case.
Last year, three men were convicted of the aggravated robberies. One of them accepted the sentence, while the other two appealed the case to the Supreme Court – which yesterday rejected the appeal.
– It is fantastic! It has been a six-year battle. This is a good kick and a scratch in the paint for the police who wanted to close the case, the millionaire tells Dagbladet.
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“Character of torture”
“The robberies in the case here also have a significant surplus of violence and are marked by torture,” the Supreme Court writes in its assessment.
– That the Supreme Court takes it so seriously and goes out so hard … It was a full pot in the end !, says Osen.
He sums up the last six years as “a struggle”.
– I have argued my way forward. I have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) because of this case. It has been a bit of a strain. But they met the wrong man in Reidar Osen. It could not be better news than what we got yesterday. Finally!
Petter Slengesol is also satisfied with the Supreme Court’s decision.
– Fantastic. It is good to see that the Supreme Court puts words to the incident, he says TV 2.
Osen has previously reported the Bergen police for gross misconduct in the service as a result of inadequate investigation in the first phase. The case was dropped.
Four years without an answer. This went wrong
“Scary”
The three have been convicted of aggravated robbery of Osen and Slengesol, according to the indictment. Osen points out that the Supreme Court states that they were abducted.
“The abduction element also makes this case sensational and frightening,” the Supreme Court writes.
One of the convicts, who was sentenced to five years and eight months in prison, appealed the proceedings, and alternatively the sentencing. The other man, sentenced to five years and four months in prison, appealed the sentence.
Dagbladet has been in contact with defender Kim Brügger Villanger, who does not want to comment on the case on behalf of his client. Dagbladet has not succeeded in contacting defender Lukasz Niedzielski.
Petter’s fight against the kidnappers
Kenneth Berg, who is now head of investigation at the murder section in Bergen, was a police investigator in the case from the start. He has been fighting for that for several years the case was not to be dismissed.
– It’s just laying down toadstool. We do not understand why we did not see the two cases in context, says Helge Stave, head of the joint unit for intelligence and investigation in the West police district, previously stated to Dagbladet.
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