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Report to TV 2.
Briton Tim Grant of Aston University in Birmingham is one of the world’s most experienced linguists in the analysis of texts in criminal cases.
– As the threat letter has been left by people who have something to do with the case, of course it is a key clue to investigate. The letter’s investigations are an ongoing investigative step, writes Police Inspector Agnes Beate Hemiø in an email.
According to TV 2, the police are working to find Norwegian experts who can work with Grant.
LOOKING FOR AN ANSWER: Police Inspector Agnes Beate Hemiø and the rest of the investigation leadership in the Lørenskog case are seeking foreign experts to learn more about the author of the letter. Photo: Vidar Ruud / NTB Scanpix
A challenge with this is, as understood by TV 2, to find a linguist who has not read all or part of the threatening letter, since several media outlets have reproduced the letter verbatim.
– The police have contacted people with experience in linguistics, but for the sake of the investigation we cannot comment further on the investigations that are being carried out, says Hemiø.
Do you want to know who wrote?
It is important that the police get answers to the following questions:
- Is it a Norwegian or a foreigner who wrote the letter?
- Could there be words and expressions in the letter that in other ways can help identify the author?
According to Tom Hagen’s explanation to police, the letter was on a chair in the outside hall, along with several of Anne-Elisabeth Hagen’s personal belongings. According to the billionaire, the letter was in an envelope.
«WE HAVE HIS WIFE ANNE-ELISABETH. IF YOU WANT TO SEE IT AGAIN. YOU WANT TO READ AND FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS PERFECTLY “, reads the first sentence.
BEFORE INTERROGATION: Tom Hagen is charged with murder or complicity in the murder of his own wife, but denies having anything to do with the disappearance. Photo: Frode Sunde / TV 2
In the letter, Hagen explains how he, by paying small sums of bitcoin, can communicate with the other party, who wants him to pay nine million euros in monero cryptocurrency. If not, they will kill his wife.
The police immediately arranged for several linguists to read the letter. According to information from TV 2, their report concluded that the author was probably a foreigner.
– Does not use Google
As the content of the letter has been published, several language experts have stated that they believe the letter appears to have been written by a Norwegian posing as a foreigner.
Language professor Jan Terje Faarlund from the University of Oslo has read the letter.
Explain that a text can often say something about a person’s age, occupation, educational background, and perhaps what part of the country they come from.
Faarlund tells TV 2 that the author of the letter has probably not used a translation program or dictionary.
EXPERT: Professor Jan Terje Faarlund believes that the letter writer has skills in Norwegian. Photo: Magnus Braaten / TV 2
– By using Google Translate, there would be fewer errors and a different type of error, while using a dictionary, there would be many more grammatical errors, incorrectly constructed sentences and inflection errors, he says.
Responds to the differential treatment of Hagen and Northug
Faarlund also says that if it is a foreigner who has written the letter, then he has acquired a certain degree of Norwegian skills.
– An introductory course for immigrants in Norway or abroad. But there they don’t learn the kind of advanced, somewhat bureaucratic or literary forms of expression that can be found somewhere in this letter, as far as I can understand, Faarlund.
Therefore, he believes that the author of the letter is likely to be fluent in the Norwegian language better than it appears.
The fact that Faarlund and several other experts believe the opposite of the linguists the police have previously used is one of the reasons why the police now want a new analysis from the British expert.
Looking for unknown man
Police believe that Tom Hagen has killed or helped kill his own wife and that there has never been a kidnapping. They believe that the whole case is marked by a “planned hoax.”
The billionaire is accused in the case, but the Eidsivating Court of Appeal decided to release Hagen because they thought the evidence was not strong enough. After many months of research, Tom Hagen had to move to Sloraveien 4 in September.
In addition to analyzing new letters, the police are also working to find out who the so-called “Metro man” is. The person in question was captured in the center of the Metro, that is, not far from the couple’s house, in the time after Anne-Elisabeth Hagen’s last sure sign of life.
– The police have received a dozen leads as to who the man may be. All the tips have been checked, without that bringing us closer to an identification. Therefore, we are still interested in advice that can help identify the man, says police inspector Hemiø.
